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AMERICAN 



Seaside Resorts ; 



A HAND-BOOK 



FOR 



HEALTH AND PLEASURE SEEKERS, 



Describing the Atlantic Coast, from tiie St. Lawrence 
River to the Gulf of Mexico. 



ILLUSTRATED WITJT MAPS AND WOODCUTS. 



Copyright, 1877. 



NEW YORK: 
PUBLISHED BY TAIN TOR BROTHERS, MERRILL & CO. 

758 BROADWAY. 

1877. 




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INDEX. 



PAGE 

Anticosti 10 

Asbury Park Ill 

Atlantic City 114 

Babylon 93 

Bar Harbor 20 

Barnegat Beach • 114 

Bath 24 

Battle Harbor 10 

Bay of Fundy 10 

Bay of Seven Islands 10 

Belfast 24 

Bellport 95 

Biddeford 22 

Black Rock 74 

Block Island 69 

Boston 24 

Bradore Bay 10 

Branford 77 

Bridgehampton 100 

Bridgeport 74 

British Possessions 9 

Cacouna 11 

Calais 29 

Camden 25 

Campo Bello Island 18 

Cape Breton Island 12 

Cape Cod 48 

Cape May 115 

Castine 24 

Centre Moriches 9S 

Chatham 50 

Chelsea 36 

Clinton 78 

Cohasset 46 

Cold Spring 110 

College Point 90 

Coney Island 92 

Connecticut 71 

Cotuit Point 49 

East Haven 76 

East Lvme 80 

Eastport 28 

Edgartown 54 



PAGE 

Fairfield 73 

Falmouth 50 

Fire Island 93 

Florida 118 

Fox Harbor 10 

Frenchman's Bay 28 

Gay Head 54 

'Glen Cove 96 

Glen Head % 

Gloucester 41 

Grand Menan Island 17 

Greenport 103 

Greenwich 71 

Groton 83 

Guilford 77 

Hampton Beach 30 

Halifax 15 

Highlands of Neversink 106 

Hingham 45 

Huntington 97 

Huntington Bay 97 

Hyannis 50 

Isle of Shoals 32 

Islip 94 

Jamesport 103 

Katama 54 

Kennebunkport 22 

Labrador 9 

Long Branch 107 

Long Island S9 

Lubec 29 

Lynn 36 

Maine 19 

Marblehead 40 

Marion 48 

Martha's Vineyard 52 

Mattapoisett 48 

Milford , 75 

Atinas Bay 14 

Mingan Island 10 

Moisie River 10 

Montauk Point 1 01 

Moriches 98 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Mount Desert Island 25 

Murray Bay 11 

Mystic S4 

Nahant 37 

Nantasket ... 46 

Nantucket 55 

Narragansett Pier 65 

Neversink 106 

New Bedford 52 

New Brunswick 15 

Newburyport 43 

Newfoundland 12 

New Hampshire 30 

New Haven 76 

New Jersey 1C6 

New Loudon SI 

Newport 60 

New York 87 

Northport 97 

North Shore, L. 1 90 

Norwalk 73 

Nova Scotia 12 

Oak Bluffs 53 

Ocean Beach 112 

Ocean Grove Ill 

Old Orchard Beach 23 

Orient 104 

Patchogue 95 

Peconic Bay 103 

Penobscot Bay 24 

Plymouth 47 

Port Jefferson 98 

Portland 20 

Portsmouth 31 

Prince Edward Island 12 

Providence 57 

Provincetown 51 

Quincy 45 

Quogue 99 

Red Bank 107 

Rhode Island 56 

River du Loup 11 

Riverhead 103 

Roekaway 92 

Rockland 25 

Rockport 42 

Rocky Point 60 



PAGE 

Rye Beach 31 

Sag Harbor , 102 

Saaruenay River 10, 11 

Salem 89 

Savin Rock 76 

Saybrook 79 

Seabrook 30 

Sea Coast 5 

Sea Girt 112 

Shelter Island 105 

Shinnecock 99 

Siasconset 55 

Southampton 100 

Southern Coast 117 

South port 73 

Southold 102 

South Shore, L. 1 91 

Speonk 99 

Squan 113 

Spring Lake Beach 112 

Stamford 72 

St. Andrew 29 

Staten Island 88 

St. Augustine 118 

St. John 16 

St. Johnland 98 

St. Lawrence River 10 

Stonington 85 

Stratford 75 

Swampscott 38 

Tadousac 11 

Tampa Bay 1-1 

Tom's River 114 

Vineyard Haven 54 

Vuedel'Eau 59 

Watch Hid 68 

Wellfleet 50 

Wells, Me 22 

Westhampton 99 

Westport 75 

Weymouth 45 

Whitestone 90 

Wickford 59 

Wiscasset 24 

Woods' Hole 52, 54 

Yarmouth 50 



THE SEA-COAST. 



Some time between the first of June and the last of August a 
very large proportion of the well-to-do citizens of the civilized 
world pack their trunks and betake themselves to the sea-shore, — 
some in search of health, some to amuse themselves, and others 
because it is the fashion. The people of the United States are 
not in the least behind their European cousins in their annual 
tendency toward the coast, and to it they come from a thousand 
miles west of tide- water, as well as from cities and towns whose 
wharves are washed by the sea itself. The salt air of the ocean 
is required to restore tone to the system, or to confirm in robust 
health those who can find no other excuse of a sanitary nature. 
Others find a sufficient reason in the change of scene, or the 
enjoyment of the sports which the sea affords. It is quite pos- 
sible that in many cases mountain air is better than that of the 
ocean ; but mountains are, as a rule, harder to reach, and moun- 
tain hotels are often more expensive and less commodious than 
those at the sea-side, while the sea breeze, during the dog-days, 
is much more likely to keep the mercury lower than it is among 
the inland valleys, no matter how high the neighboring hills may 
be. The distinctive feature of the sea-side is the opportunity 
which it affords for that most refreshing, invigorating, and 
generally beneficial luxury, the salt-water bath. The etiquette 
of American sea-beaches permits the two sexes to bathe in com- 
pany, and a gentleman may escort a lady into the surf, at mid- 
day, with as much propriety and grace as he can display in lead- 
ing her to a place in the ball-room in the evening. The cynio 

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SEA- SIDE RESORTS. 

may here insinuate that the emergence from the waves cannot, 
from the necessities of the case, be so graceful or dignified as 
was the descent, and truth compels us to admit that dry- 
clothes do make a difference. However, where there are hun- 
dreds at hand in the same predicament, what does one care for 
the clinging of wet bathing-clothes, especially when the excitement 
of the bath has caused a quicker flow of blood, and raised the 
spirits to a delightful exhilaration ? 

There are very few persons who are not benefited by salt-water 
baths, provided due caution is exercised, and the state of the 
system properly considered. The effects of sea-bathing may be 
either stimulating or depressing, that is to say, it is a powerful 
agent for good or ill. When properly indulged in it invigorates 
the whole system, and is especially potent in cases of physical or 
nervous prostration. The sea is a powerful chemical agent, and 
acts upon the system through the pores of the skin, removing 
disease itself, through direct chemical action. Many of the salts 
held in solution in sea-water are strongly medicinal in their prop- 
erties. Some persons, while they enjoy the bath, emerge from it 
only to feel enervated, while others are at once benefited and 
strengthened. The former class should not be discouraged ; 
many reasons may exist why bathing should not at first be bene- 
ficial. Medical advice should be sought wherever there is reason 
to doubt the expediency of taking a course of sea-baths, or sus- 
pect a tendency to heart disease, and strict orders are often given 
by the physician with regard to the length of time which should 
be spent in the water. It may be accepted as a general rule that 
every one, whether weak or strong, will experience the best 
results from sea-bathing, if he stays in the water only Jive, or at 
most ten minutes, runs, or at least hurries, across the beach to 
the dressing-house, rubs himself or is rubbed by an attendant 
with a coarse towel, until a glow is produced on the skin, and 
then dresses with all convenient dispatch. 

At all the great watering-places, in fact, at most hotels, there 
is some generally understood signal, which marks the bathing 
hour ; but there are many places where signals, and life-boats, 
and bathing-masters are unknown. To the uninitiated we would 
say that the " last half of the flood " is the proper time to bathe. 

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SEA-SIDE RESORTS. 

By this phrase we mean the three hours which precede high- 
water. This time is the best for several reasons : 1 st, the water 
coming- in from the offing is purer than at other times ; 2d, every 
wave tends to throw persons and things upon the beach, there- 
fore there is little or no risk of being swept into deep water ; and 
3d, the upper part of the beach is usually, and particularly on 
the shores of sounds and bays, much better for bathing purposes 
than that which is exposed at low water. As the tide is high 
twice within twenty-four hours, and reaches its highest point 
considerably later on each succeeding day, the bathing hour is 
necessarily variable, and must now and then be changed from 
afternoon to morning. This, however, is a matter of little 
moment, provided care be taken not to bathe after eating. 
Probably the best time for a bath, in a sanitary point of view, is 
before breakfast ; but if three hours are allowed to pass after a 
meal, the bath may usually be taken with impunity. Immediate- 
ly after a meal bathing is apt to produce congestion. The great 
danger is, that yielding to the fascinating excitement of the 
scene, bathers will remain too long in the water. Some persons 
can, without injury, bathe for a much longer time than others; 
but it is an almost universal rule that a bath limited to five or ten 
minutes is much more beneficial than a longer one, while, except 
for the momentary pleasure of the sport, the immediate effect is 
far more enjoyable. Many persons thoughtlessly boast of spend- 
ing half an hour or an hour in the surf, and there are those who 
apparently receive no injury from so doing. It is a risk, however, 
and we wish to make our warning against the practice emphatic 
and unmistakable. 

To our masculine readers let us give a word of caution in re- 
gard to introducing their wives or daughters, or any of their 
feminine acquaintances, to the surf. At the risk of offending 
those who advocate the perfect equality of the sexes in all re- 
spects, we assert that many ladies, and especially such as have 
come to the sea-side as invalids, hoping to derive benefit from 
bathing, look with real terror upon the incoming breakers ; and 
to drag them into the waves as they come roaring toward the 
beach is simply an act of cruelty which may cause harm instead 
of good. One act of thoughtless, and perhaps kindly-meant rough- 

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SEA-SIDE RESORTS. 

ness, may prostrate the nervous system effectually, and preclude the 
possibility of benefit. Let those who are timid in bathing feel their 
own way into the surf. They will very soon venture into the 
edge of the foam, and a few trials will probably do away with all 
timidity. Children should be judiciously encouraged, and not 
carried forcibly into what looks to them like a deadly peril. 

It is considered by many very important that the forehead and 
top of the head should be wet with cold water before bathing. 
This tends to prevent a rush of blood to the head. 

Bathing dresses may be hired at all sea-side resorts, but it is, 
of course, pleasant to have a suit of one's own. Twilled flannel 
is the best material. Color, of course, to suit taste or complexion. 
Suits are now made m one piece, which is a great improvement on 
the pattern in which the upper and the nether parts were sepa- 
rable. The garment should open front sufficiently for putting on 
and off easily, and it should on no account fit tightly. A loose 
bathing suit adds ten-fold to the comfort of the bath, unless it 
is of a very thin material, and made after the manner of tights — 
a style very pleasant for bathing, but not available for all classes, 
nor at the more fashionable and conservative resorts. A broad- 
brimmed hat of coarse straw completes the outfit and shields the 
head from the sun. We decline to recommend bathing shoes or 
rubbers where the beach is smooth. They are very likely to 
come off in the surf, and if they stay on, are almost certain to 
be filled with sand. Many ladies wear caps of oiled silk for 
obvious reasons, but the salt water is an excellent hair invigorator, 
and it is a pity to lose its beneficial effects. 

The sea-side is not often beneficial in cases of pulmonary disease, 
although there are places on the coast, even as far north as Maine, 
where, according to the hotel proprietors, wonderful cures have 
been effected. As a rule, however, consumptives should avoid the 
North Atlantic sea-board ; its breezes are too strong for delicate 
lungs. Paralytic, spinal, and in fact all nervous affections, are 
often cured by a sojourn at the sea-side and judicious bathing. 
And 'when we consider the vast increase of nervous complaints con- 
sequent upon our restless American lives, we may safely assume 
that nine persons out of ten are benefited by sea-air and sea- water. 

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THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 



Within a few years tourists have learned that the coasts of the 
British Provinces possess rare attractions during the summer 
months, and the coasts of Labrador are now visited by hunting 
and fishing parties, who find much that is interesting and attrac- 
tive even on that desolate and far-off coast. Who shall say that 
some future edition of this guide-book may not have to include 
Greenland itself, in order to complete its list of sea-side resorts ? 

In the course of a trip to the North all degrees of temperature 
may be encountered, and warm clothing is indispensable. It is 
possible to keep cool in warm weather by leaving off a coat or 
two, but it is not possible to keep warm in cold weather without 
thick clothing. Therefore, take plenty of wraps. 

The different provinces have not yet assimilated their currency, 
and it is best to take United States money and exchange it as 
required. Letters of credit can, of course, be obtained for the 
principal cities. 

LABRADOR. 

This savage and desolate region has few attractions save to the 
sportsman, the artist, and those who are robust enough to enjoy a 
bracing climate. Its interior is rugged, and so barren as to afford 
sustenance for but little game. Its rivers, however, swarm with 
salmon and trout, and during July, which is its choicest month, 
hundreds of gentlemen from Canada and the United States visit 
its shores. Lines of steamers run from St. John's, Newfoundland, 
to Battle Harbor. (St. John's is most directly reached from 
Halifax.) Visitors to this region who do not go in their own or 
chartered yachts must make up their minds to forego the luxu- 
ries of modern travel, and accept with a good grace such accommo- 
dations as exist on sea and shore. 
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SEASIDE RESORTS. 

Battle Harbor is a roadstead between a group of islands near 
the eastern extremity of Labrador. On one of them* is the town 
where the steamers land. Like all the towns of this region, it is 
a great resort for fishermen, whose vessels crowd the roadstead 
during the season. The ocean currents are such in this vicinity 
that even in calm weather the surf is magnificent. Fox Harbor 
may be reached by a short sail. Here the native Esquimaux may 
be seen in their nearest approach to the civilized world. Nume- 
rous rivers fall into the ocean hereabouts, all of them affording 
the finest salmon-fishing. 

Along the Belle Isle Straits and the Gulf of St. Lawrence the 
coast is somewhat more closely settled than that to the northward, 
but it is still wild, and its general character is the same. Br adore 
Bay claims to be the site of the first settlement made on this 
continent by Europeans. Brest was and is its name, and 1508 is 
the alleged year of its foundation. 

The Ming an Islands are a curious group of picturesque limestone 
crags, having among them several hundred inhabitants. They 
lie between the western end of the island of Anticosti and the 
mainland. The Moisie River ends the route of a weekly boat 
from Quebec. Here are quite extensive iron works, owned in 
Montreal, and a hotel where reasonably comfortable quarters 
may be had. 

The Bay of Seven Islands is one of the most picturesque on the 
coast, its rocky islands rising abruptly hundreds of feet above the 
water. Anticosti has few attractions for visitors, and is indeed 
nearly uninhabitable in summer, on account of black flies and mos- 
quitoes. With the neighboring coasts it has proved fatal to many 
vessels, and hundreds of castaways have perished on its inhospita- 
ble shores. There are now relief stations at convenient distances, 
so that the terrible scenes of past years are not likely to be 
repeated. 

THE LOWER ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGTJENAY RIVERS 

Are within the regular range of summer travel. Steamers leave 
Quebec at hours which may be easily ascertained in that city, and 
the trains of the Intercolonial Railway render accessible all 
points on the south shore. 

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 

Murray Bay, 82 miles from Quebec, is the first place of resort 
reached, and the principal one on the north shore. The leading 
hotels are Dubergefs, The Lome, and Warren's. There is good 
fishing in the river and the neighboring lakes. 

Riviere du Loup, 112 miles from Quebec, has several large 
boarding-houses, and one hotel, La Rochelle House. A few mile3 
up the river are picturesque falls, which are a favorite picnic 
ground for summer visitors. 

Cacouna, 6 miles east of Riviere du Loup, is the principal 
watering-place on the river. St. Lawrence Hall and the Mansion 
House are the two largest hotels. The charges at these are $2. 50 
and $2.00 per day. There are many smaller hotels and boarding- 
houses, where the charges are still more moderate. Cacouna 
seldom knows hot weather. Its pure air, fine beach, and pictu- 
resque surroundings, render it an exceptionally healthful and 
attractive resort, and many Americans as well as Canadians make 
it their summer home. Cottages are springing up on all sides, 
and its future importance to the tourist world promises greatly 
to exceed its present remarkable prosperity. 

THE SAGUENAY RIVER 

Joins the St. Lawrence 134 miles from Quebec. It is beyond 
question one of the most remarkable rivers in the world. From 
its mouth to Chicoutimi, the head of steam navigation, its shores 
present a series of mighty cliffs and headlands, which rise in 
some instances to a height nearly equaling the width of the river. 
Its depth is 1,000 feet or more, and its black waters hardly 
afford a practicable anchorage ground for a hundred miles. Ships 
of the largest size ascend for cargoes of lumber, and are obliged, 
when the wind changes, to go about and sail the other way, for 
the wind never blows across this rock-bound stream. The 
steamer usually ascends the river at night, and descends by day- 
light. If the traveler times his trip so as to secure a full moon, 
this is an admirable arrangement, but it is somewhat exasperating 
to pass through such wonderful scenery on a dark night. At 
Tadousac, near the mouth of the river, is a large hotel ($2.50«per 
day), and there are numerous private houses, occupied during the 
summer. Above this point on the Saguenay no accommodations 

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SEA-SIDE RESORTS. 

for travelers exist, save such as can be obtained in the houses of 
the habitans and logging camps. 

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 

This province of the Dominion contains nearly 100,000 inhabi- 
tants. It lies off the coast of New Brunswick, in the southern 
portion of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and enjoys a milder climate 
than some of the neighboring shores. Its scenery is not striking 
in any respect, nor does it possess, otherwise than in its fine air, 
unusual attractions for the tourist. Charlottetown is a place of 
8,000 inhabitants, with three small hotels. Summerside is the 
next largest town. The Island Park Hotel is on an island in the 
harbor. It is well spoken of by Americans who have visited it. 
The Prince Edward Island Railway is a narrow-gauge road, built 
in 1874 by the Dominion government. It runs from end to end 
of the island, about 120 miles, stopping at every hamlet where 
passengers or freight can be found. 

CAPE BRETON ISLAND. 

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is separated from the Atlantic by the 
islands of Newfoundland and Cape Breton. These are but little 
visited by travelers, although much that is interesting to the 
sportsman and tourist is to be found on their coasts and in their 
forests. Cape Breton is remarkable for its romantic scenery, its 
bracing atmosphere, and for its historical associations. In the 
middle of the last century the island, or its principal fortress at 
Louisburg, was a bone of contention between the French and 
English, who expended vast sums and thousands of lives in taking 
and retaking its formidable works. The story of Louisburg is one 
of the most thrilling afforded by the history of the "Old French 
War." At Sidney and Baddeck, reasonably good hotels are found, 
and at most of the farm-houses in the trout-fishing region com- 
fortable quarters may be engaged at moderate rates. The Mar- 
garee River is the most noted trout stream on the island. Large 
quantities of coal are mined in the vicinity of Sidney, and the 
coiyitry is rapidly developing an unwonted prosperity. The 
island is almost bisected by a sound or bay known as the " Bras 
d'Or," which has a superficial area of some five hundred square 

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 

miles, and almost equals the Saguenay in its abrupt cliffs and the 
grandeur of its surroundings. 

Steamers run from Halifax to Sidney, but their times of de- 
parture are at intervals of two weeks, and it is impossible to give 
accurate directions. Letters addressed to the Anglo-French S. S. 
Co., or the Eastern S. S. Go., will no doubt secure the desired in- 
formation. There is also an overland route via the Intercolonial 
Railway, crossing the Gut of Canso, and continuing by stage. 

NEWFOUNDLAND. 

The trip to and around this immense island is made by steamer 
from Halifax, and possesses an interest peculiar to itself. The 
coast is almost without exception abrupt and picturesque. The 
few harbors which open through the wall of rock are ports of 
queer fishing towns seldom visited by tourists, and the interior is 
a vast forest intersected by rivers and broken by lakes which are 
not yet fully explored. The capital, St. John's, is a city of 25,000 
inhabitants, and has very pleasant and picturesque surroundings. 
The chief business of the island is fishing, and St. John's owes its 
prosperity to the trade with the "outports," as the other coast 
towns are in general designated. 

The St. Pierre and Miquelon islands, lying off the southern 
point of Newfoundland, are still under the French flag, being the 
sole remnants of her once wide American possessions. They are 
of considerable importance, being the rendezvous for an immense 
French fishing fleet and a depot of supplies. The French tele- 
graph cable lands here, and goes thence to Duxbury, Mass. 

NOVA SCOTIA. 

The north-eastern and south-eastern shores of the Bay of Fundy 
belong to this Province, which forms an extensive peninsula, 
joined with the mainland by an isthmus at Chignecto. The shores, 
both on the ocean and on the bay, are very rugged, but the latter 
are most attractive to the tourist, and are oftenest visited, being 
more accessible in coasting craft. The land is fertile along the 
bay, and there are many farms and villages of a primitive charac- 
ter and very interesting to the tourist. The extensive mineral 
deposits of this region, consisting of coal, iron, copper, and gold, 
have of late attracted much attention from capitalists and scien- 

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SEA-SIDE HESOIiTS. 

tLfio men. The coal measures are chiefly in the neighborhood of 
Pictou, on Northumberland Straits, and are connected with Halifax 
by rail. The coal is bituminous, and has been mined extensively 
of late years. The coal-fields extend along the Atlantic coast 
from Cape Canso to Cape Sable, extending about three miles in 
land. They are in some places very rich, although they have 
never caused such an excitement among fortune-seekers as was 
the case with California and Australia. The other mineral re- 
gions contain a vast variety of gypsum, building stones, and va- 
rious rare minerals, and are often visited by parties of mineralo- 
gists in search of cabinet specimens. 

Minos Bay, the eastern arm of the Bay of Fundy, is noted all 
over the world for its tides, which, during certain seasons, rise to 
the height of seventy feet, with a rapidity which is terrific and 
sometimes dangerous. At all seasons of the year the tides in this 
bay are extraordinary, and the visitor should always bear in mind 
the possibility of being surrounded or cut off from shore by the in- 
coming waters. From Minas Bay, where Cape Blomidon (Blow-me- 
down) rises in grandeur to a height of several hundred feet, to 
Briar's Island, a distance of over a hundred miles, a lofty series 
of trap-cliffs rises from the water in succession of towering 
precipices, in some cases 600 feet high. Game is still abundant 
all over the Province, and in the north-eastern part moose and 
bears are still found, while all the lesser varieties of partridge, 
plover, and wild-fowl exist in such quantities as to attract nume- 
rous sportsmen from all over the country. The fishing is good, 
both in salt and fresh water, the former being alive with mackerel, 
cod, and the other common kinds, and the latter affording capital 
sport for those who despise everything excepting salmon and trout. 
The lakes of Nova Scotia are very numerous, although generally 
small, and in these capital fishing is to be found. It is, in fact, 
difficult for the sportsman to find a place in the Province where 
there is not good sport with rod and gun. The site of the Acadian 
settlements, the story of whose inhabitants has been told to the 
world in "Evangeline," by Mr. Longfellow, is still pointed out, 
and in some instances the cellars of the old French houses are 
visible. 

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 

HALIFAX, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia. 
Hotels — Waverley, Stewart's, Halifax, International. 

The rocky shores of Nova Scotia are admirably adapted for the 
effective arrangement of cities, and Halifax has made the most 
of its opportunities, being built on the side of a hill which rises 
250 feet above the waters of the magnificent harbor. The streets 
are broad and smoothly paved or macadamized, the wharves are 
well built, and usually well filled with shipping, and altogether 
the city presents a Very busy and attractive aspect as the traveler 
approaches on the deck of an ocean steamer. It is thoroughly 
English in its social aspects, and gay at all seasons, after the 
decorous English fashion. 

The government buildings, including the Province Building, the 
different barracks, the hospitals, Dalhousie College, and the Court- 
House, are all interesting objects to the stranger. The citadel, 
occupying the summit of the heights commanding the town, is a 
work of great strength, and, next to the somewhat similar forti- 
fications at Quebec, is the strongest fort in the British American 
possessions. Halifax is a very interesting place in which to spend 
a few days, and from thence as a center, many interesting excur- 
sions, may be made in almost any direction. The communications 
are as follows : with New York weekly, by the British mail 
steamers ; with St. John, N. B. , by rail and steamboat, on 
Wednesdays and Saturdays, connecting with Portland steamers, 
and by the Intercolonial Railway to Yarmouth, at the end of the 
peninsula, and with the railway system of the United States and 
Canada by way of Truro and St. John, N. B. The steamship 
"Falmouth," which plies between Boston and Halifax, is a 
splendid side -wheel steamer, nearly new, and was built expressly 
for the route. She leaves Boston every Thursday morning, and 
touches at Portland for some two hours. On her return she leaves 
Halifax Monday evenings and reaches Boston Wednesday morning, 
without calling at Portland. Tourists will find this line one of 
their best means of reaching or returning from Nova Scotia. 
Stages run in all directions through the neighboring country. 

NEW BRUNSWICK. 

This is one of the provinces of the Dominion of Canada, lying 

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SEA-SIDE RESORTS. 

next to the State of Maine and separated therefrom by the St. 
Croix River. The coast is similar to that of Maine, but the 
places where board and lodging can be obtained are much less 
numerous. The character and habits of the inhabitants are more 
primitive, and the whole region is, in short, more adapted to the 
wants of the sportsman than of the tourist, in the ordinary ac- 
ceptation of the term. The country is very wild and hilly, and is 
intersected by numerous rivers, which render canoe navigation 
easy and delightful. In fact, by the aid of short portages, the 
whole region can be traversed by water. The Bay of Fundi/, of 
which New Brunswick forms the northern coast, is full of interest 
for the tourist, be he fisherman, hunter, yachtsman, artist, or 
simply sight-seer. Its picturesque wooded shores and islands, its 
fisheries, and its wonderful tides, are yearly becoming more and 
more attractive to visitors. The best way to see the bay and the 
coasts is to make up a party, charter a suitable vessel, and spend 
a week in cruising about those interesting waters. Warm cloth- 
ing is very essential to comfort in. such an excursion, as the tem- 
perature is liable to variations of the most sudden and unlooked- 
for character. 

ST. JOHN, St. John Co., Province of New Brunswick. 
Few cities are more picturesquely located in appearance than 
this, the chief city of the Province. It is built Upon a bold rocky 
peninsula, just at the mouth of the St. John River. In June, 
1877, its southern half was totally destroyed by fire. The burned 
district included the finest buildings and all the leading hotels, and 
it will be long ere the traces of the conflagration will be wholly 
effaced. The scenery of St. John River is well worthy of atten- 
tion, its noteworthy features beginning almost as soon as the city 
limits are passed. The channel here becomes narrow, the oppo- 
sing cliffs being only about 250 feet apart for some 400 yards. 
These narrows are passable by vessels only when the water in the 
river above and in the harbor below is nearly on the same level, 
for whether the tide is ebbing or flowing, a furious current sets 
through the gap, rendering navigation extremely hazardous, if 
not wholly impracticable. The St. John taps an extensive lumber 
region, and much of the prosperity of the city is due to the profits 

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of this business. The International Steamship Company's boats 
leave Boston for St. John at eight o'clock a.m., every Monday, 
Wednesday, and Friday, from July to September, and on Mon- 
days and Thursdays during the rest of the season. Boats leave 
St. John on Wednesdays and Saturdays for Windsor, N. S. , con- 
necting with Halifax by rail. The European and North Ameri- 
can Railway, 108 miles to Shediac, on the Straits of Northumber- 
land, connects with steamboats for the Gulf of St. Lawrence and 
Prince Edward Island. 

GRAND MEN AN ISLAND, Charlotte Co., New Brunswick. 

The island (which was first settled about the year 1800) is about 
twenty miles long, and from three to five wide, and is intersected 
from end to end by good roads. 

During the summer it is reached by daily steamers from 
Boston and Portland, by way of Eastport. During the win- 
ter there is communication once or twice a week. A stage line 
connects North Head with Grand Harbor, nine miles distant, car- 
rying passengers and mails. There are no hotels or boarding- 
houses on the island, but many of the residents accommodate 
summer visitors with well-furnished rooms and excellent fare at 
seventy-five cents to a dollar a day, or from three to seven dollars 
per week (gold). Among the natural attractions of the island are 
the bold, precipitous headlands on its western shore, which rise to 
a height of eight hundred feet. On the south-east side are ten or 
twelve small islands, and a number of picturesque coves, known as 
Pettit's, Gaskill's, Woodward's, and Grand Harbor, all abounding 
in sea-fowl, ducks, seals, and occasionally whales. The shores are 
rich in natural curiosities, the surf-bathing is very fine ; and cod, 
hake, pollock, halibut, mackerel, and herring can be caught in 
any quantity. The island also has several fresh- water ponds or 
lakes, affording, with their facilities for fishing and fowling, ex- 
cellent objective points for inland excursions. Deer, squirrels, 
and rabbits abound in the woods hereabout, and there are plenty 
of fresh- water trout in the brooks and ponds. The climate, from 
May to October, is considered highly beneficial to invalids, es- 
pecially those suffering from gout, dyspepsia, asthma, and mala- 
rious diseases. 

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Campo Bello Island, opposite Eastport, Maine, and shielding it 
from the ocean, has much fine scenery and many natural attrac- 
tions, among which may be noted the Friar's Face, a curious group 
of rocks, which, spite of their having been long a target for the 
practice of English men-of-war's-men's guns, are nevertheless suffi- 
ciently attractive to merit attention. The people of the island 
are proverbially kind and hospitable to strangers, and were it not 
for a single drawback, the occurrence of occasional fogs, render- 
ing the air damp and unhealthy, Campo Bello would have long 
since acquired, as a summer resort, a much greater popularity 
than it now enjoys. 

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The sea-coast of this, the largest of the New England States, is 
about two hundred miles in length, trending to the north-east and 
south-west, if its general direction only is considered, but boxing 
the compass repeatedly in its countless inlets and bays. It is the 
most diversified coast imaginable. It possesses beaches as white, 
smooth, and hard as those of Newport ; others made up of many 
colored pebbles, from the size of a grain of wheat to that of a 
walnut ; and again others composed of boulders, assorted accord- 
ing to size, from a few inches to several feet in diameter. Be- 
tween these beaches, and overhanging them and surrounding 
them, are the granite rocks which lend the picturesque element 
to the scene. These are in some cases low and in others high ; 
here simply shelving ledges, there towering cliffs ; but everywhere 
they are infinitely varied in form, and everywhere, except in the 
sheltered coves or on the shoreward side of the countless islands, 
the " white horses " of the Atlantic are forever trampling shore- 
ward and dashing their foam high over the rocky barriers. In 
the following detailed sketches of summer resorts on the Maine 
coast, many omissions have necessarily been made, simply because 
of the surplus of material. It is safe to assume that almost every 
family living permanently on this coast receives boarders during 
the summer months, and in many of the villages ^here are one or 
two hotels, usually of moderate size. The charges at all these 
places are reasonable and the fare plain. It is of course impossi- 
ble to obtain many city luxuries for the table, but blueberries, fish, 
and game are often abundant, and cleanliness and kindliness are 
characteristics of the inhabitants. From the New Hampshire line 
to Bath on the Kennebec River, all places on the coast are accessi- 
ble by stages from the stations of the Eastern and Boston and 

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Maine Kailroads from Boston, connecting at Portland with the 
Maine Central Railroad for Bangor, which is the most convenient 
port from which to reach the desirable points on Penobscot Bay. 
Besides these railway communications, coasting steamers run from 
Portland and Bangor to many of the landings, both east and west, 
of Penobscot Bay. The climate of Maine, although very severe 
in winter, is cool and invigorating in summer, and it is even 
claimed that invalids suffering from pulmonary complaints are 
often benefited by a sojourn on this coast. Statements of this 
kind should, however, be received with caution, for the fresh 
ocean breezes are often too bracing for delicate constitutions. 
For those, however, who are in health, or who are sufficiently con- 
valescent to enjoy its peculiar characteristics, the Maine coast 
possesses attractions which are not found elsewhere on the At- 
lantic seaboard. 

PORTLAND, Cumberland Co., Maine. 
108 miles from Boston. Hotels — Fahnouth, Preble, United 

States, St. Julien. 

Portland claims, with a very good show of justice, that it is the 
most beautiful city in the Union, a statement which must, how- 
ever, be received with due allowance for the partiality which is 
always pardonable in such cases. The harbor is perhaps the finest 
in the United States. The city stands on a high peninsula, many 
of its streets are very handsome, and were beautified by wide- 
spreading shade-trees before the great fire of I860, which laid nearly 
one-half of the business portion of the city in ashes. This fire occur- 
red on the 4th of July, in the year named, and was probably caused 
by the careless use of fireworks. The burned district is, however, 
almost entirely rebuilt in much handsomer style than before, and 
a stranger can liardly detect the traces of this disastrous confla- 
gration. Many of the finest streets escaped the fire, and there 
the traditional beauties of Portland are still to be seen. The vis- 
itor should not fail to visit the Upper and Lower promenades, and 
the observatory, whence fine views may be obtained of the harbor 
and of the interior, with the White Mountains in the distance. 
The harbor is diversified by numerous islands, to which Port- 
landers are fond of making picnic excursions. 

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Portland was settled in 1632. It became a part of the Massa- 
chusetts Colony in 1658, and was destroyed by Indians in 1676. 
Two years later it was resettled, but the French and Indians de- 
stroyed it again in 1 690. At the outbreak of the Revolution it 
was again nearly destroyed. It has now 36,000 inhabitants, and is 
a highly prosperous city. 

Cape Elizabeth is one of the great attractions of Portland. A 
drive of three miles, over a capital road, brings the visitor to this 
favorite resort. Cape Cottage is a large hotel frequented by vis- 
itors from all over New England. It is quite the fashion in Port- 
land to drive out to the Cape after a south easterly blow, and see 
the surf which comes in on the rocks with unbroken force from 
the open ocean. The Ocean House and the Atlantic House are a 
few miles further along the coast. Nine miles from the city is 
the Twin Sisters Light-House, at the extremity of the cape. 

Among the islands, Cushing's is the favorite resort for bathing 
and fishing, the Ottawa House affording accommodations for 
those who make more than a transient visit. The harbor is de- 
fended by Forts Preble, Scannel, and Gorges. Steamers run daily 
during the summer to all points of interest accessible by water. 

Portland is connected with Boston by the Eastern R. R. and 
the Boston and Maine R. R. The Maine Central and its branches 
run to Augusta and Bangor, and the Portland and Ogdensburg 
R. R. passes through Conway and the White Mountains. During 
the winter months the Allen Line of steamships sails to Liverpool. 
In summer it lands instead at Quebec. The International Line 
sails on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at six P.M., for 
Eastport and St. John. 

The steamers running between Portland and Boston are first- 
class side- wheel steamers, and have elegant passenger accommoda- 
tions. They leave Boston and Portland every evening and arrive 
in season to connect with the earliest trains. The line has been 
established for nearly thirty-five years, and during that time not 
a single passenger has lost life or sustained injury, which speaks 
well for the management. 

There is also a commodious line of steamers from New York, 
leaving Pier 38, East River, 4 p.m., Mondays and Thursdays, 
touching at Martha's Vineyard in summer. Tourists for the 

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Maine coast are specially directed to this line. There is a daily 
line of excellent boats to Boston, and semi-weekly line to Mt. 
Desert, and a tri-weekly line up the Penobscot River to Bangor. 
Once a week a steamer leaves for Halifax. 

WELLS, York Co., Maine. 

80 miles from Boston. From Portland 28. Hotels — Ocean 

House, Island Ledge House, Atlantic House. 

This town is on the Eastern Railroad, also on the Boston and 
Maine Railroad, which is nearest to the beach (time from Boston, 
3 hours and 20 minutes), and is attractive in the possession of a 
fine beach, six miles in length, upon or near which stand at 
intervals the hotels named. York Beach and Bald- Head Cliff, 
next to the south, are also favorite points for excursionists, and 
Agamenticus Mountain, twelve miles farther south, and four 
miles inland, commands a sweeping view of the surrounding 
country. 

KENNEBUNK PORT, York Co., Maine. 

85 miles from Boston. From Portland 23. Hotels — Beach 

House, Sea- View House, Fairvieio House. 

This is almost the first of the euphonious names which the 
Western visitor encounters in Maine. The " Port " is three miles 
from the railway station, where stages are to be found on the 
arrival of all trains. The coast in the vicinity is conveniently 
divided into beach and crag, and several natural curiosities are to 
be seen, including the Bouncing Bock and the Spouting Horn, 
for, like Newport and other more famous places, Kennebunk 
Port has one of these curious natural fountains. Across the river 
is Cape Porpoise, where is a hotel, the Goose Rocks House. Three 
miles from the station is Cape Arundel, a new resort with a good 
hotel, the Ocean Bluff. 

BIDDEFORD, York Co., Maine. 

93 miles from Boston. From Portland 15. 

The Saco River at this point furnishes a valuable water-power 

by three falls of sixteen feet, and another of seven feet. Biddef ord 

is essentially a manufacturing town. It has 10,000 inhabitants, 

and in its spacious mills, as for instance the Pepper ell, Laconia, 

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or Saco, the visitor Will find much that is interesting and instruc- 
tive. The lumber interest here is also important. A natural 
curiosity not to be overlooked is The Pool, a deep basin hollowed 
out in the solid rock, about a quarter of a mile from the sea, and 
connected with it by a narrow passage, through which it is filled 
and emptied by each tide. Near the Pool is a hotel, the Yates 
Home, and several large boarding-houses, which bear the names 
of their respective proprietors. Biddeford is connected with 
Boston and Portland by four or five trains daily each way on both 
the Boston and Maine and the Eastern Railroads. 

SAGO, Maine, 

Pop. 6,000. 
Is connected with Biddeford by a bridge, and is also prominently 
identified with manufacturing and lumber interests. The famous 
York Mills are located here. Visitors will find the fine beach, a 
few miles east of Saco, a favored resort for bathers. On Fox- 
well's Brook, in the same township, is some bold and striking 
scenery, embracing a cascade sixty feet in height. 

OLD OECHARD BEACH, 

Three miles from Saco Falls, has hotel accommodations for numer- 
ous visitors, and Scarborough Beach, with the Atlantic and Kirk, 
icood Houses, is easily reached from the same station. Old Orchard 
Beach, so called from an ancient orchard of apple-trees, four miles 
from Saco and Biddeford, is best reached by the Boston and Maine 
Railroad, the track of which runs between the great hotels and 
the beach. This beach has been called the finest in New England. 
It extends ten or twelve miles from Pine Point, at the mouth of 
Scarborough River, to the Saco River, with a breadth of 300 feet 
at low water. The sand is hard, smooth, and clean. The drive 
over it is charming. The bathing is without undertow and safe. 
Near the hotels is a forest park of thirty acres, with pleasant 
paths, arbors, and adornments. The neighborhood offers interest- 
ing rambles and drives, and the resort is said to be the most 
fashionable of those east of Hampton and Rye. The Old 
Orchard and the Ocean Houses are the largest, and every way first- 
class. The Gorham and the Montreal Houses are cheaper, but 
good houses. Scarborough Beach, near by, has first-class hotels, 
among which are the Atlantic and Kirkwood, and many good 

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boarding-houses. The beach, two or three miles long", offers good 
bathing and fishing. From the south end of the beach projects 
Prout's Neck, with large summer boarding-houses. At the north 
is Richmond's Island and Cape Elizabeth, with its large hotels. 

BATH, Sagadahock Co., Maine. 
50 miles from Portland. Hotels — Sagadahock House, Shannon's 

Hotel. 
The Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers unite above Bafch to 
form a bay, which is split into innumerable subdivisions by various 
islands, among, or near which is Harpswell, which was chosen 
by Mrs. Stowe as the scene of one of her popular novels. There 
is here an excellent hotel, which is conveniently reached by boat 
from Portland, or by stage from the stations of the Eastern Rail- 
way. 

WISCASSET, Lincoln Co., Maine. 

Hotel — Hilton House. 

Wiscasset is on a deep inlet, Sheepscot River, some eight miles 
east of the Kennebec. It is reached by the Knox and Lincoln 
Railway. 

PENOBSCOT BAY. 

This wide and beautiful bay is an expansion of the mouth of 
the Penobscot River. The traveler, who merely sees its shores 
and islands in passing, cannot fail to note its beauties. We can 
mention only a few of the many attractive places along its shores. 

BELFAST, Waldo Co., Maine. 
Hotels — American House, New England House. 

Is on the west shore of Penobscot Bay, thirty miles below Ban- 
gor. It is a quiet ship-building and fishing town, with prettily 
shaded streets, and many tasteful and elegant private residences, 
and is connected regularly both by stage and boat with Bangor, 
Portland, and Boston. The bay at this point contains several 
wooded islands, which form the destination of frequent excursion 
parties during the summer season, and which occasionally, too, 
are selected as the scene of Methodist camp-meetings. 

Gastine, standing upon a tongue of land which shoots out into 
the bay, and occupying a fine position as a sea- port town, is on 
the east side of the bay, directly opposite Belfast, and twelve 

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miles distant from it. The antiquated residence of Baron Oas- 
tine, an old French settler of the last century, is one of the curi- 
osities here shown to visitors, as are also the ruins of Fort Bur- 
rail, a fort built prior to the revolutionary days by the British. 
In common with the sister town, Belfast, Castine offers its visit- 
ors delightful sailing, fishing, hunting, and excursion trips to the 
islands in the adjacent bay. Camden is a pretty village at the 
foot of a striking group of mountains, rising some 1,400 feet 
above the sea. Its principal hotel is the Bay View House. 

ROCKLAND, Maine, 
Is located at the entrance of Penobscot Bay on the left, and is 
known as one of the important lime regions of the country. 
Granite quarries largely engage the attention of the people of this 
section. Its Custom House and Post-Office Building is particu- 
larly noticeable, and is one of the finest in the State. Its hotels 
are the Lynde, and Thorndike. The former, under the excellent 
management of George A. Lynde, Esq., is a very popular resort. 
The attention of the summer tourist is directed to the steamer 
Ulysses, running from Rockland in connection with the Knox and 
Lincoln Railroad, direct to Mount Desert and Sullivan three times 
a week. The Sanford Steamship Go. also makes connection with 
above. The Ulysses is under excellent management, is staunch and 
commodious, and conducts the tourist along the wild and pictur- 
esque coast of Deer Isle to all the points of interest of Mount Des- 
ert to Sullivan. Sullivan has a most inviting hotel, the Waiikeag, 
which offers superior facilities to tourists and pleasure seekers. 

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, Hancock Co., Maine. 

Situated about forty miles south-east from Bangor, in what is 
known as Frenchman's Bay, Mount Desert Island, although only 
about twelve miles wide by fifteen long, contains more elements 
of beauty arranged in a more picturesque way than any other 
island, large or small, on the Atlantic coast of the United States. 
It is in brief an insular range or collection of mountains, consist- 
ing of something like a dozen granite peaks, separated by valleyB 
of great wildness and beauty, which often contain deep, cold, 
and clear lakes, or wild mountain brooks, where trout of the 
"ganaest" description are found, and where the "dun deer" 
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still quenches his thirst. The coast-line of the island is very irre- 
gular, now curving in long shingly beaches, and now broken into 
coves which are of wonderful variety in form and feature. As 
if not satisfied with giving this romantic island simply an exterior 
coast, liable to the lashings of ocean waves, nature has divided 
it nearly in two parts by the long, narrow, and tortuous waters of 
Some's Sound, deep enough to float large vessels, and sheltered by 
towering cliffs and wooded hills from every wind. Such are the 
general features of the island, combining, as some one has said, 
" the Isle of Shoals and Wachusett, Nahant and Monadnock, 
Newport and the Catskills." The first settlement was made by 
the Jesuits, under a grant from Louis XIV., and very early in the 
history of the country the cross was raised in gratitude to God 
for a wonderful escape from shipwreck. Mount Desert is easily 
reached by boat from Portland ; but if the sea is rough, take 
cars to Rockland and wait for the boat. The climate of Mount 
Desert is very bracing, and fine weather may be usually counted 
upon until late in the season. The writer hereof can testify that 
at his last visit, in the middle of September, sea and sky and 
shore were in the full glory of summer. 

Bar Harbor (P. O., Eden, Me.) is near the north-eastern ex- 
tremity of the island, and is the principal resort for visitors. Ife 
is, in short, a village of hotels, none of which can accommodate 
more than eighty guests. We append a partial list of these houses . 
Agamont, Rockaway, Lookout, Deering, Hamor, Ocean, Harbor, 
Atlantic. Bay View, Eden, St. Savieur, Lyman, and Wayside Inn. 
Prices vary from $10 to $14 per week. The tourist will find ex- 
cellent accommodations at the Rodick House. The location of the 
house is commanding, its rooms excellent, and its table unsur- 
passed on the island. 

Bar Harbor is a part of Frenchman's Bay, and is in the very 
midst of the finest land and water scenery on the island. Look- 
ing seaward from the comparatively level plain whereon the ho- 
tels stand, the eye takes in at a glance groups of rocky or tree- 
covered islands, the distant hills on the mainland, and beyond all, 
the blue horizon line of the ocean, broken only by the hardly -to- 
be-seen dot which marks Mount Desert Rock, and its light-house 
twenty miles distant. Turning shoreward, the mountain range 

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in all its grandeur and beauty is close at hand, and it is hardly 
possible to walk in any direction without finding beauties of sea 
and shore which will well repay the explorer. Green Mountain 
is, according to the coast survey measurement, 1,960 feet high. 
The walk or ride to its summit, from Bar Harbor, is not a hard 
one, and the view from the Tip-Top House, where sleeping ac- 
commodations can be had for a few guests, is not to be matched 
on the Atlantic seaboard, for the simple reason that it is not pos- 
sible elsewhere to place one's self nearly two thousand feet above 
tide-water, and within sound of the surf. The expanse of ocean 
visible from this mountain is so vast that all previous concep- 
tions of an unbroken horizon are belittled in the comparison. 
Inland the view is of an entirely different character, but very 
wild and beautiful, covering, as it does, not only the neighboring 
mountains, but the State of Maine as far north as Katahdin, and 
the coast in both directions for fifty miles or more. Among the 
objects of interest along the coast in the vicinity of Bar Harbor 
are Schooner Head, a promontory whose white cliffs bear some 
resemblance to a vessel under sail ; The Ovens, several caves hol- 
lowed out by the joint action of water and frost; The Spouting 
Horn, a cavern at the water's edge, which, after penetrating the 
cliff for some eighty feet, opens into a cleft in the rock, and makes 
a u spouting horn " which really justifies the name. In a gale 
the tumult of the waters here is something wonderful, and even 
the effect of the ordinary ground-swell is impressive, although 
the "spouting" takes place only when the sea is very heavy. 
Within easy walking distance of the "Horn" is a remarkable 
cave, which can be entered only at low tide and in. calm weather. 
The floor of this cave is always covered by water to the depth of 
a few feet, but the detached boulders and ledges along the sides 
enable the visitor to examine the exquisite zoophites, or sea-ane- 
mones, of various colors, which cling to the rocks, and an infi- 
nite variety of sea-weeds, and other forms of submarine life, both 
animal and vegetable. Thunder Cave is another cavity in the 
rocky wall which bounds the island, into which the waves roll 
with great violence, producing now and then a report which is at 
once curious and startling. Space alone is wanting to describe 
the numerous other attractions of this remarkable island, which 

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no appreciative person can visit without being impressed by its 
natural beauties. South-west Harbor differs from Bar Harbor in 
possessing fewer natural curiosities. The ssa-view is, however, 
more open, and the bathing facilities, perhaps, better than at the 
last-named place. The Sea Wall is a curious natural breakwater, 
composed of large rocky fragments thrown up by the action of 
the waves. Valuable minerals are found along this ledge. The 
hotels are : the Freeman, Island, and Ocean Houses. Prices, $10 
to $14 per week. 

In the center of the island, near the head of Some's Sound, is 
the Mount Desert House, which provides advantageous head- 
quarters for hunters and anglers, whose object is rather to range 
the woods and streams than to sojourn in the vicinity of the ocean. 

Frenchman's Bay.— So called from the first settlers, who soon, 
however, gave place to the English. The bay lies just to the east- 
ward of Mount Desert Island, and consequently shares with Bar 
Harbor many of the beauties of this region, and all the advan- 
tages in the way of fishing, gunning, sailing, and bathing, which 
any place in the vicinity can claim. Among the places on this 
beautiful bay where board and lodging can be obtained, we may 
mention Jonesport {Bay View House), Machiasport {Deering 
House), Machias {.Eastern Hotel, Claims Hotel), West Oouldsboro, 
Hancock Point {McFarland House), Brooklin {Brooldin House). 
These villages are practically alike as places of resort. The rates 
charged at hotels and boarding-houses range from $5 to $10 per 
week. 

EASTPORT, Washington Co., Maine. 
234 miles north-east from Portland. Hotels — Passamaq noddy 

House. 

Eastport stands on Moose lsla?id, connected with the mainland 
by a bridge, and in constant communication by means of ferries 
with the neighboring British possessions. It is reached by the 
International line of steamers, in connection with boats from 
Boston and from Portland, at six P.M on Mondays, Wednesdays, 
and Saturdays during the summer season, and on Mondays and 
Thursdays during the rest of the year. The trip from Portland 
occupies about fifteen hours. The natural scenery at this point 
is rarely excelled in any part even of this remarkable coast. From 

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the high hills in the rear of the town the observer looks down 
upon the blue waters of the magnificent bay, dotted with thickly- 
wooded islands, while in the distance the high cliffs stand out in 
relief against the sky. Eastport, which is one of the oldest set- 
tlements on the coast, was occupied by the British during the war 
of 1812, and was held by them some years after peace was de- 
clared. Its harbor is among the best on the coast. It has eight 
churches (including Unitarian, Episcopal, Methodist, and Bap- 
tist), and a high-school. Summer visitors will find the bathing, 
fishing, sailing, rowing, and driving facilities excellent. Campo 
Bello Island is a picturesque place of resort within Canadian 
waters. Not far distant are Quoddy Head and Grand Menan, 
both favorites with excursionists. Board, $3 to $7 per week. 

LTJBEC, Washington Co., Maine. 
Hotels — Lubeo Hotel, Cobscook House. 

Lubec is the easternmost town of the United States, notwith- 
standing the popular ascription of that honor to Eastport. It i3 
reached by a steam-ferry from Eastport, three miles distant. 
Time from Boston, twenty-four hours. Lubec was incorporated 
in 1811, with a population of four hundred, but, in 1815, received 
a large accession to its number from Eastport in consequence of 
the occupation of that place by the British. The location of 
Lubec renders it especially attractive to lovers of the picturesque. 
To the north of the peninsula on which it stands is Passama- 
quoddy Bay, studded with its numerous island gems ; to the 
south-west, Quoddy Point ; and on the east, the Narrows, a strip 
of water only a half-mile wide, separating it from the British 
island of Campo Bello. Both surf and still bathing can be en- 
joyed by the visitor, the tide rising and falling from twenty to 
thirty feet. Abundance of sea-birds and fish offer attractions to 
the sportsman. 

St. Andreio, a village not far to the northward, has a large 
hotel and excellent bathing facilities. It is the terminus of the 
N. B. and Canadian R. R. 

Calais (International Hotel, St. Croix Exchange). This town 
has about 6,000 inhabitants, and has considerable lumber and 
ship-building interests. Opposite is St. Stephen ( Watson House), 
in New Brunswick, joined to Calais by a bridge. 

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The coast of this State is very short, the distance between the 
Massachusetts and Maine lines being only about seventeen miles. 
This includes, however, the famous beaches at Rye and Hampton, 
and presents many attractions which render it populous during 
the warm months. The Eastern Railway, with its numerous 
trains from Boston and Portland, affords a ready means of com- 
munication with all parts of the country, and enables the hotel 
proprietors to secure supplies for their tables with greater ease 
and regularity than is commonly the case. 

SEABROOK, Kockingham Co., New Hampshire- 

42 miles from Boston. From Portland 66. 
Visitors to the coast in the vicinity of Seabrook are obliged to 
depend upon such accommodations as are afforded by the houses 
of the inhabitants and by some small hotels. This region is ren- 
dered peculiarly attractive by the numerous brooks and small 
streams, many of them affording good trouting, which empty into 
one another and into the ocean in the most labyrinthine manner 
imaginable. It is, in fact, from these streams that the township 
derives its name. Whaleboat building was formerly an important 
branch of industry, and is still followed to some extent. 

HAMPTON BEACH, Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. 
46 miles from Boston. From Portland 62. Hotels— Boar's 
Head Hotel, Ocean House, LeaviWs Hampton Beach Hotel, 
Eagle House, Conch House. 
The Hamptons are three considerable villages, each having sta- 
tions on the Eastern Railway. These, however, the tourist will 
not find especially attractive as sojourning places, although, being 
old settlements, they all have interesting features. Hampton 
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popular, although not very fashionable resort. Boarding-houses 
and hotels are found at short intervals along its entire length, 
and the accommodations are so generally good, that it is difficult 
to persuade habitual visitors that there is any other endurable 
place of resort on the coast. The Boar's Head is a bold headland 
jutting far out to seaward, and proverbially low in temperature 
when the thermometer is among the nineties almost everywhere 
else. The beach is separated from the inland hills by wide 
marshes, which are the resort of countless game birds ; and the 
bathing and fishing are everywhere superlatively fine. It is quite 
common for parties from the interior to camp out on the beach ; 
and several of Whittier's poems were suggested by the scenes and 
summer life of this healthful region. 

RYE BEACH, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. 
50 miles f ram Boston. From Portland 56. Hotels — Farragut 
House, Sea View House, Washington House. 
This favorite and fashionable resort is reached by stage from 
North Hampton or Greenland, the former being four, and the 
latter three miles distant. During the summer, stages connect 
with every train. In its general characteristics the beach does 
not differ from that at Hampton. Rye Beach extends from the 
Boar's Head, mentioned under Hampton, to the mouth of Ports- 
mouth Harbor, and along its entire length the ocean views are 
magnificent, commanding the coast-line from where the ''White 
tusks of the Boar " break the waves, to where Portsmouth light 
marks the end of the beach. Far to the seaward are the Isles of 
Shoals, which are described under the head of Portsmouth. To 
the south is Little Boar's Head, on which are several cottages and 
a large boarding-house. From the beach lovely roads lead in 
every direction to the Hamptons, Portsmouth, Exeter, Green- 
land, Stratham Hill, and to various other places of interest and 
note, rich in historic and legendary association. 

PORTSMOUTH, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. 
56 miles from Boston. From Portland 52. Hotels— Rocking- 
ham House, Kearsarge House, National House. 
The principal seaport of New Hampshire stands on a peninsula 
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land-locked harbor, which, owing to the high and rapid tides, is 
never frozen, and which the largest ships can safely enter. The 
main en trance to this harbor is on the north-east, and is well pro- 
tected by Forts Mc Clary, Sullivan, and Washington. There are 
many islands in the harbor, some of which are connected with the 
mainland by bridges. The Piscataqua River was entered by an 
English captain, Martin Pring by name, in 1603, and twenty 
years later a settlement was formed on the site of the present 
city. The antique aspect of the town, its shaded streets, its com- 
fortable and venerable mansions, surrounded by spacious yards 
and gardens, make Portsmouth a most interesting place to see, 
and as it is in the immediate vicinity of many sea-side resorts, it 
is often visited by tourists. The oldest American newspaper, if 
we do not count some that died prematurely, is still published in 
Portsmouth — " The New Hampshire Gazette." The United 
States Navy Yard is situated on Continental Island, on the east 
side of the river, and Seavy's Island, near by, is occupied by the 
officers' quarters. Among the always interesting accessories of a 
navy yard, there is here an ingenious contrivance, known as a 
balance dry-dock. Among the other objects of interest are the 
church of St. John, the Athenaeum, the tomb of Sir William Pep- 
perell, and the old mansion of Governor Langdon. The railway 
connections are the Eastern Railway, and the Boston and Maine 
Hailway. Steamboats run to Boston and along the coast. Oppo- 
site is Kittery, Maine, where is the Ocean View Hotel. 

THE ISLES OF SHOALS, Gosport, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. 
Hotels — The Appledore House and Oceanic House. 

This group of islands is reached by steamer from Portsmouth, 
ten miles distant. It consists of eight islands, of which the 
largest contains some three hundred acres, and the smallest about 
one acre. They are for the most part covered with a thin soil. 
The three largest are known as Hog, Star, and Haley's Islands. 
Prior to the Revolution, some six hundred souls dwelt on these 
islands, and the community was considered a prosperous one, 
being largely engaged in fishing and commerce. There are two 
excellent hotels on the islands, the Appledore and the Oceanic, 
and it is by no means impossible, if this is crowded, to obtain 

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* 

board in some of the gray, antiquated houses wherein the inhabi- 
tants live, and some of which have defied the storms of centuries. 

In approaching 1 the islands, a white line is seen which may at 
first be mistaken for a beach, but which gradually resolves itself 
into a belt of roaring breakers, which, year in, year out, churn 
themselves into foam along these rocky shores. As may be readily 
imagined, the isolated position of these islands does not commend 
them to the lovers of Newport and Long Branch, but they possess 
a fascinating power for all who can be charmed by solitude and 
grandeur. Still-water baths are only to be had in the hotel bath- 
rooms, for the most sheltered coves on the islands are hardly 
ever secure from the Atlantic rollers. 

A full account of the islands, their history, and their inhabitants 
has been published by Gelia Thaxter, a great part of whose life 
has been spent here, and whose pen has won her so wide a reputa- 
tion. Invalids are advised not to go direct to the islands from an 
inland residence, as the bracing properties of the air are too much 
for delicate constitutions. After becoming accustomed to the 
coast air, however, that of the Shoals may be breathed and almost 
lived upon with the most beneficial results. All kinds of sea food 
are abundant, as a matter of course, and the fishing and boating 
are superlatively good. 

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BOSTON, Suffolk Co. 
Hotels — Brunsicick, St. James, Revere, Tremont, Parker, Ameri- 
can, Evans, Vendome, United States, Adams, Q.uincey, Belmont. 

The metropolis of New England, and the second commercial 
city of America, occupies a peninsula lying between the Charles 
River and Boston Bay, which constitutes the old portion, or Boston 
proper, while included within the city limits are East Boston and 
South Boston, the former being separated from Boston proper by 
a portion of the harbor, and the latter by a narrow creek, the 
outlet of " South Bay." On the south-west it is connected with 
Roxbury by what is called the " Neck," once a narrow isthmus, 
but now much enlarged, to make room for a rapidly increasing 
population. Its surface is very uneven, rising, at three different 
points, into elevations of considerable height. One of these, called 
Beacon Hill, is 138 feet above the sea level. It was called by the 
Indians u Shawmut," and by the early English settlers tk Tre- 
mont," or "Trimont," appellations that still cling to some of its 
principal avenues. In part owing to the unevenness of its surface, 
and because it was originally laid out upon no systematic plan, its 
streets are perhaps the most irregular of any city in the country. 
Recent improvements, however, have remedied some of those 
defects, so that Washington and Tremont Streets, which are its 
principal thoroughfares and promenades, are convenient and capa- 
cious. In November, 1872, a fire swept through the most solidly 
built part of the city, in the neighborhood of Kingston and Sum- 
mer Streets. A space of 50 acres was burned over, and some 
$70,000,000 worth of property destroyed. As the oldest city of 
the New World, it abounds with traditionary and historical asso- 
ciations, while for the high social culture of its people, the eminent 

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literary talent of its numerous writers, the eloquence and forensic 
ability of its public speakers, as well as for the energy, enterprise, 
and public spirit of its merchants and business men, it stands pre- 
eminent among the cities of America. Its location is upon the best 
harbor on the New England coast, opening to the sea between two 
points nearly four miles distant from one another — Point Alderton, 
on Nantasket, and Point Shirley, in Chelsea. It is sheltered from 
the ocean by the peninsulas of which these two points are the 
extremities, and by a number of islands, between which are three 
entrances. The main passage between Castle and Governor's 
Islands is so narrow as scarcely to admit two vessels to pass 
abreast, and is defended by Fort Independence and Fort Winthrop. 
Fort Warren guards the outer entrance into the harbor. This 
harbor is easy of access, affording good anchorage-ground for the 
largest vessels. It is plentifully studded with islands, some of 
which are occupied with public buildings, and are well worth visit- 
ing. In the vicinity of Boston are many interesting sights and locali- 
ties. Bunker Hill Monument, a massive column of granite 200 
feet in height, is in Charlestown, whither horse-cars run every few 
minutes. An inside, spiral flight of steps leads to the top of this 
lofty shaft, where a glorious prospect meets the eye. At Charles- 
town is a United States Navy Yard and naval depot, which, with 
its immense war vessels and large quantity of guns and ammu- 
nition, is well worthy of a visit. Seven bridges connect Boston 
with the neighboring towns and cities, most of which are free to 
public travel. Mount Auburn Cemetery is situated about a mile 
west of Harvard University, in Cambridge. It was laid out in 1831, 
and covers an area of 100 acres. Its surface is beautifully diversi- 
fied with hill and dale. A natural growth of forest-trees covers 
much of its area, adding a simple, majestic, and appropriate orna- 
ment to this hallowed spot. It contains tombs and monuments 
of a great variety of design, and of the most various and exqui- 
site workmanship, and is adorned with rare flowers and shrubbery 
in the greatest profusion. On account of the narrowness of its 
limits, many of the merchants and business men of Boston reside 
in its numerous and beautiful suburban towns and villages, which 
spring up and grow with unexampled rapidity. These are con- 
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munication, running out from the city like the radii of a circle, 
The region of country within ten or fifteen miles round Boston, 
taken as a whole, surpasses in the beauty, good taste, and attrac- 
tiveness of its residences, parks, lawns, and gardens, that of any 
section of equal size in America. The sea-coast in both directions 
from the city is very remarkable for its romantic beauty and for 
the charming country which, for several miles back from the 
shore, renders the whole region one of surpassing picturesqueness. 

CHELSEA, Suffolk Co., Mass. 
4 miles from Boston. 

As a suburb of Boston, Chelsea is almost a part of that city, 
being connected therewith by horse and steam cars and by ferry. 
It has no general attractions as a resort save its fine beach and the 
convenience with which Boston can be reached. There are, how- 
ever, several boarding-houses besides the City Hotel, and all 
available rooms are occupied during the summer. Toft's Hotel, 
not far beyond Chelsea, is at a pleasant driving distance from the 
city, and deserves honorable mention on account of the superior 
excellence of its game suppers. 

LYNN, Essex Co., Mass. 
11 miles from Boston. From Portland 97. Hotels— Sagamore 

House, Kirkland House. 

The shoe business of Lynn has carried the name and fame of 
the city wherever American shoes are worn, and has done more 
than any other industry to make the place what it is — one of 
the most thriving cities of its kind in the Union. The shoe busi- 
ness was inaugurated here as early as 1750, by a Welshman named 
Dagyr, who, although he set on foot one of the most remunera- 
tive industries in the land, died in the poor-house. The iron 
interest of the country likewise had its beginning at Lynn, where 
a forge and smelting works were established in 1643. The first 
American fire-engine was made at Lynn in 1654, and was used in 
Boston. The vicinity of the city is very pleasant. Long Beach 
affords a charming drive toward Nahant, its sand being so hard 
that a horse's hoofs scarcely make any impression thereon. Dun- 
geon Rock is unusually favored in the way of legendary associa- 

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tions. having- been the haunt of pirates in the olden time, and the 
resort of treasure-seeking Spiritualists in more modern days. 
One of these worked for years, until Ms death in under 

•iritual" guidance, and excavated a passage 135 feet long. 

treasure was ever found, so far as is known. 

NAHANT, Essex Co.. Mass. 
The picturesque peninsula of Nahant was formerly the gay- 
est and most popular watering-place on the Massachusetts coast, 
pre-eminence as a resort was brought to a sudden end by the 
burning of its large and magnificent hotel, which has not been re- 
built. Then followed a period of decadence, when the neighbor- 
ing town of Swampscott became the popular resort of Bostonians. 
It has now in a measure reasserted its claims, and bids fair to re- 
gain its supremacy. The peninsula is formed by two rocky bluffs, 
known as " Great and Little Xahant." These are connected with 
each other, and with the mainland, by Long and 8kovt BttU&es. 
There are many private cottages on the bluffs, and camping 
parties make the beaches populous during the summer ; but the 
crowd of fashionables only visit their former haunts for a drive, 
or for a stay ef a few hours. The Garden of Maolis is a tract of 
twenty acres laid out in walks and adorned with fountains, to 
which the public is admitted for a fee of twenty-five cent3. Its 
founder was ilr. Tuder, who made a great fortune in the ice trade. 
The rocks at the extremity of the peninsula have been worn by 
the waves into fantastic grottoes, castles, pulpits, natural bridges, 
and romantic nooks. Egg Rock is a barren i sl and rising from the 
ocean three miles to seaward from Great Nahant. It has a light- 
house, and sailing parties often direct their course to its rocky and 
somewhat dangerous landing-place, and view with curiosity the 
hermit-like household arrangements of the light-keeper's family. 
On some of the other less desolate islands in the vicinity, there 
are small hotels and facilities for bathing. Lynn is the nearest 
station to Nahant on the Eastern Railway, and carriages are al- 
ways available for those who are not disposed to take one of the 
most charming walks on the coast. 



SEASIDE RESORTS. 

SWAMPSCOTT, Essex Co., Mass. 

12 miles from Boston. Hotels— Lincoln House, Ocean Rouse, 
Great Annawan House, Little Annawan House, Orient House. 

Swampscott, although it has passed the first flush of its success 
as a watering-place, is still crowded yearly by Bostonians, and 
still holds the palm as the most brilliant sea-side resort in the im- 
mediate vicinity of the city. It owes its popularity to its many 
beaches, available ior driving, walking, or bathing, and chiefly to 
its distance from Boston, which is so nicely adjusted as to prevent 
an influx of the rowdy element, and yet to admit of easy acess 
to Washington Street. In short, Swampscott is to Boston what 
Long Branch is to New York, and there is probably no place of 
resort on the New England coast where Boston fashionable so- 
ciety can be better seen than here. The village is situated on the 
line of the Eastern Railroad, twelve miles from Boston, on the 
north shore of Massachusetts Bay, adjoining Lynn, Salem, and 
Marblehead on the shoreward side, and washed by pure ocean 
water on the south and east. Opposite Nahant, and separated 
from that picturesque peninsula by a beautiful bay some three 
miles wide, the village commands a very attractive ocean view, 
and its coast-line is exposed to the full sweep of Atlantic winds 
and waves. The township has a sea frontage of about seven 
miles, beaches and rocky bluffs succeeding one another in pleas- 
ing variety. The beaches are four in number, and although not 
so long as some of those farther to the north, they are admirable in 
quality : being composed of fine gray sand, which the surf pounds 
down to a hardness not often found even on an ocean beach. 
This quality renders the walks and drives very enjoyable ; and 
the fact that every beach has a definite terminal point which one 
approaches with appreciable rapidity, renders them more enjoy- 
able than those seemingly interminable reaches of sand along 
which we may drive for hours wdthout making any apparent 
progress. An avenue, sixty feet wide and nearly ten miles long, 
extends from Marblehead to Humphrey Square in Swampscott. 
This probably forms the most perfect sea-side drive in New 
England, passing as it does through an infinite variety of coast 
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horses' feet ; now winding- over rocky bluffs, and again penetrat- 
ing the woodland until sound of the ocean is almost lost. The 
village itself is largely made up of hotels and houses which re- 
ceive boarders during the season. Permanent societies of the 
Congregational, Methodist, and Christian Disciple denominations 
exist here, and in summer the Unitarians and Baptists hold 
regular services in the town-hall. There is an Episcopal Chapel 
at Lynn, within easy riding distance. The hotels named at the 
beginning of this chapter are all good ones, although none of 
them are so large as the great carivansaries at Newport or Long 
Branch. They are all near the ocean, some being directly on the 
shore, and others on commanding elevations near by. The hotel 
accommodations represent only a fraction of the whole lodging 
capacity of the place, as may be readily surmised from the num- 
ber of carriages which surround the station on the arrival of any 
afternoon train from Boston. 

SALEM, Essex Co., Mass. 

16 miles from Boston. From Portland 92. Hotels — Essex 

House, Derby House. 

As the first permanent settlement in the old Massachusetts 
colony, Salem has an historical interest peculiar to itself. It was 
first settled in 1626, and with the arrival of John Endicott, two 
years later, its growth toward commercial importance began. In 
1692 that remarkable delusion known as the Salem witchcraft, 
checked for a time the development of the village, and caused 
what may almost be described as a reign of terror throughout the 
vicinhty. Twenty persons charged with witchcraft were executed 
on what is still called G-allows Hill. At the Court-House, among 
other relics of that singular superstition, is a bottle of pins which, 
according to the record, were taken from the persons of sundry 
bewitched individuals. The house of Roger Williams, where 
some of the examinations were conducted, is still standing. Pre- 
vious to the Revolution the inhabitants were largely engaged in 
fisheries, and did good service as privateersmen during the war. 
This over, and independence gained, they devoted themselves tq 
commerce, and Salem ships and sailors became known and cele- 
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was the rival of Boston in the shipping trade, but this at last for- 
sook her ; and, after a period of decay, manufacturing came in and 
revived her siuking fortunes. The proximity of the town to 
Swampscott, Nahant, and all other places of fashionable resort 
within a dozen miles or so, makes Salem a very agreeable place 
of summer residence, notwithstanding its size and population. 
Besides several interesting public buildings in Salem, the Pea- 
body Institute, two miles distant, is interesting as a memento of 
its philanthropic founder. It is open Wednesdays and Saturdays. 
Here may be seen the portrait of Queen Victoria, presented to 
Mr. Peabody soon after he declined to accept the honor of knight- 
hood at her hands. The East India Marine Hall contains a 
valuable museum, which was established in 1825. Mr. Peabody 
gave $140,000 for the advancement of science, and the Peabody 
Academy of Science was established, and now owns the museum, 
which is open daily except Sunday and Monday. 

The Custom House is a somewhat antiquated and now rather 
a superfluous structure, but is interesting to litterateurs as the 
place where Hawthorne passed much of his time in a semi-official 
dream, while engaged in writing some of the most charming of 
his earlier works. 

Salem is reached via the Eastern Railroad, or by boat from 
Boston. Passengers for Marblehead leave the main line here and 
take a train on the branch road. 

MARBLEHEAD, Essex Co., Mass. 
20 miles from Boston. Hotels — Forsyth House, Eldridge House. 

Who has not heard the name and fame of Marblehead boats 
and fishermen ? Many a bold fellow from this hardy town has 
laid down his life for his country in every war which has occurred 
since 1630, when it was first settled. A full regiment of Marble- 
head men served in the Revolution, and the towns-people boast 
that its proportion of soldiers in the Secession War was greater 
than that of any other town in the Union. The village is situa- 
ted on a headland jutting out into the sea, and commands an 
extended view in all directions. On the right are Boston Bay 
and Nahant; in front is Marblehead Neck, upon which the 
waves break in awful grandeur during a gale. On the left is 

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Cape Ann. At night the glimmer of ten lighthouses can be seen 
along the coast, and by day the ever-shifting sails of multitudi- 
nous craft lend variety to the scene. Marblehead Neck is occu- 
pied in summer by some 500 persons, who encamp in tents or 
small houses, and luxuriate at a small expense in air, which costs 
something like four dollars a day at a hotel. Surf and still bath- 
ing are to be found in perfection and according to taste. Either 
may be selected by simply going to one section or the other of the 
Neck. All kinds of salt-water fish and game abound in their re- 
spective seasons. On June 25th, 1877, Marblehead suffered the 
ordeal by fire, and lost a large proportion of her most valuable 
buildings, including factories, churches, and hotels. Her pros- 
perity received thereby a serious check. Lowell Island is a pleas- 
ant rocky sojourning place, about a mile off the Marblehead 
coast, and having a good hotel open during the season. Marble- 
head is reached by a branch of the Eastern Railroad, which 
diverges at Salem ; also by boat from Boston. Beverly, 18 miles 
from Boston, has no hotels, but many cottages line its shores, and 
it is populous in summer with sojourners from the city. 

GLOUCESTEK, Es3ex Co., Mass. 

28 Miles from Boston. Hotels— Atlantic House, Webster House, 

Ocean House, Pavilion, Whiting House. 

Here was the first settlement on the north shore of Massachu- 
setts Bay (1624). The town is pleasantly situated, compactly built, 
but is too much interested in professional fishing, to offer many 
attractions to the tourist. Nevertheless, the many hotels and 
boarding-houses are annually filled with guests, who find good 
surf bathing, good fishing, and plenty of pleasant drives to 
while away the time. Among the latter, the drive around Cape 
Ann is in great favor, from its superb ocean views. As a change, 
however, the different beaches, the granite quarries, etc., etc., 
afford an agreeable variety. The Pavilion and the Ocean House 
are close to the beach. Among the objects of interest in the 
vicinity are Raft's Chasm, Moving Rock, Bass Rocks, Nor man'' s 
Woe. The last named spot is metioned by Longfellow in his 
beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Hesperus." Connec- 
tions are made with Boston by boat and rail. 

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ROCKPORT, Essex Co., Mass. 
31 miles from Boston. Hotel — Sheridan House. 

Granite is king- on this part of Cape Ann, and bis realm is rap- 
idly being strengthened. Every man that has a rock in his door- 
yard, gets up a derrick and manufactures paving. Everybody 
that owns a small rock cuts it in two and sells the halves for 
paving. To the quarries Rockport owes its prosperity in a com- 
mercial point of view ; but of late years it has acquired consider- 
able popularity as a resort, its somewhat inadequate hotel accom- 
modations being counterbalanced by the great beauty of the 
surroundings. Gloucester Branch termmates here. Being nearly 
on the extremity of Cape Ann, Rockport commands magnificent 
ocean views, and the walks and drives along the rocky coast are full 
of interest and variety. Pigeon Cove, situated on the extreine point 
of Cape Ann, when once seen, never again suggests the quiet nook 
which its name calls up in the mind of the ingenuous stranger. Year 
in and year out the ocean thunders at its threshold. The village 
is securely posted, however, above the reach of the waves, and 
overlooking miles and miles of sparkling ocean and hazy coast. 
This village was for a long time the favorite resort of Thomas 
Starr King, Col. T. W. Higginson, Richard H. Dana, and is still 
visited by many Bostonians and others who are well known to the 
public. Pigeon Cove House, Safe's Chasm, Long Beach, Coffin's 
Beach, Thatcher's and Straitsmouth Islands, and sundry drives 
through the woods and along the coast, are the standard points of 
interest ; and fishing, gunning, boating, bowling, and billiards are 
available for their respective votaries. The surf bathing is magnifi- 
cently and fascinatingly dangerous, and should be indulged in only 
by good and cool swimmers, or when every precaution is taken to 
insure safety. The still-bathing is rather tame by contrast, but is 
to be preferred for the weaker brethren and for all the sisters. 
The Eastern Railway from Boston leaves travelers at Rockport, 
whence stages run to Pigeon Cove, two miles distant. If pre- 
ferred, a steamboat can be taken to Gloucester, and the journey 
completed by rail and stage as before. 

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NEWBURYPORT, Essex Co., Mass. 
36 miles from Boston. Hotels — Merrimack House, American 

House, Ocean House. 
Its inhabitants may be pardoned for claiming that Newbury- 
port is the most charming of New England cities, although they 
have not been able as yet to convince all outsiders of the justice 
of their claim. Every one must admit, however, that it is an ex- 
ceptionally interesting and beautiful old town. It was settled in 
1635. The growth of the town was rapid and its commerce ex- 
tensive prior to the war of 1812. In 1811 a great fire devastated 
a large section. The privateering annals of Newburyport are 
worthy of record. Not only did the first United States privateer 
sent out, sail from this port, but during the eight years succeeding 
1775, Mr. Nathaniel Tracy, and other wealthy merchants, sent out 
24 cruisers, which captured 120 vessels from the enemy, their ton- 
nage amounting to 23,360 tons. These were sold for $3,950,000. 
The cruisers were meanwhile lost with but one exception. 
The war of 1812, accompanied as it was by the fire before men- 
tioned, gave a blow to the prosperity of Newburyport, from which 
it has never recovered. The town is delightfully situated on a 
hill-side sloping the Merrimack. Along the top of the hill runs a 
wide avenue, known as High Street, which is bordered by elegant 
residences and ornamental grounds. This avenue affords, with 
its continuations, a charming drive of eight or ten miles. Among 
the objects of interest we may mention the Old Presbyterian 
Church, where Whitefield labored, and a monument to his mem- 
ory ; an elegant memorial chapel connected with St. PauVs 
Church ; the house in which Jacob Perkins prepared the first 
steel bank-note plates ; the Garrison House, with its walls pierced 
for musketry ; and the Tracy House, now used as a free public 
library, and which in old times was visited by Washington and 
Lafayette. There are many churches, embracing all the denom- 
inations usually found in this part of the country. There is also 
a Custom House, a City Hall, and various school buildings. Ex- 
cellent sail-boats are to be had in the river to convey passengers 
down to the beaches, and a small steamer is likewise available, at 
a moderate charge, for larger parties. Plum Island is a famous 
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the railroad station, whence carriages and stages are constantly 
running for the accommodation of passengers. This island is a 
barren sand-bank, stretching for nine miles southward from the 
mouth of the Merrimack. It is peculiarly fitted to afford a fine 
view of the surf, for the outer beach is so steep almost from the 
water's edge, that the mighty waves of the Atlantic roll up almost 
unbroken, and hurl their full force against the sandy barrier. 
For the same reason the bathing, except in certain localities, or on 
the inner beach, is unsafe except for very strong swimmers. 
The beach is a favorite resort for sportsmen, who find all kinds of 
sea-fish in abundance in their season. There are one or two good 
hotels on the island, which is connected with the mainland by a 
causeway and bridge. The fishing, from boats off shore, is good 
for cod, pollock, and mackerel. Newburyport is in easy and con- 
stant communication with Boston and Portland by the Eastern 
Railway, and Boston and Maine Railroad. 

Salisbury Beach (Atlantic House), a fine reach of smooth, 
yellow sand, in the neighborhood of which are good hotels and 
boarding accommodations for summer visitors. The beach is sev- 
eral miles long, and the view from some parts thereof, and from 
the hills near by, is remarkably fine. The bathing facilities are 
as good as can be found anywhere on the coast. The peculiar at- 
traction of this beach is found in a large number of small cottages, 
scarcely larger than good-sized dry -goods boxes, which are rented 
for something like a dollar a day to persons wishing to live for 
a while at the sea-side, and at the same time maintain an inde- 
pendent establishment on an economical scale. The Amesbury 
branch railroad here diverges from the main line. {For other 
points on the Eastern Railway, see New Hampshire and Maine). 

QUINCY, Norfolk Co., Mass. 
8 miles from Boston, via Old Colony and Newport Railway. 

Passing over Neponset, which is a near-at-hand suburb of 
Boston, we reach the town of Quincy. The village proper stands 
upon an elevated plain, and, like the other suburbs of Boston, is 
remarkable for its general air of taste and refinement. John 
Adams, John Quincy Adams, former Presidents of the United 
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of Independence, were born here. The town was settled in 1625, 
and shortly became notorious for the riotous proceedings of its 
inhabitants, who set at naught the puritanical customs of the 
day, and in the words of a contemporaneous chronicler, " scan- 
dalized the neighborhood by setting up a May-pole, drinking and 
dancing about it like so many fairies, or furies rather ; yea, and 
worse practices, as if they had anew revived and celebrated the 
feast of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of 
the mad Bacchanalians." These doings were, however, summa- 
rily put a stop to by Captain Miles Standish, who arrived with a 
posse from Plymouth, arrested the leaders, and dispersed their 
retainers. Quincy has become one of the most select of the sea- 
side neighborhoods in the vicinity of Boston. The granite quar- 
ries are well worthy of a visit, being very extensive and producing 
a fine-grained stone of great durability, and used for building and 
monumental purposes all over the United States. The Old Col- 
ony and Newport Railroad and the daily steamboats render the 
place easy of access from the city. 

WEYMOUTH, Norfolk Co., Mass. 
13 miles from Boston. Hotel — Weymouth Hotel. 
. The South Shore Railway, which diverges from the Old Colony 
Line at Braintree, has three stations within the limits of this 
town. Of these Weymouth is the principal station, the others 
being in fact, as well as in name, simply the North and East 
divisions of the town. These last are largely devoted to manu- 
facturing enterprise, while Weymouth proper is chiefly made up 
of handsome sea-side villas. There are also several hotels and 
boarding-houses, and the bathing, boating, fishing, and driving 
are good. 

HINGHAM, Norfolk Co., Mass. 
15 miles from Boston. Hotel, — Old Colony House. 

This town, celebrated for the beauty of its scenery, was set- 
tled about 1635, and the old meeting-house, built in 1680, is still 
standing. The village lies at the head of an arm of Massachu- 
setts Bay, contains a good hotel and boarding-houses, is readily 
reached by boat or rail several times a day, and is very popular 
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lovely harbor views and a charming proximity to numberless 
points of attraction. 

NANTASKET, Hull, Norfolk Co., Mass. 
16 miles from Boston. 

Nantasket Beach is the chief feature of the locality as a water- 
ing-place. This fine reach of sand forms the southeast side of 
Boston Harbor. It is four miles in length, and is celebrated for 
its bathing facilities, and for the excellent sport the various sea- 
fowl afford in their proper season. It has several good hotels and 
boarding-houses ; and although there is a goodly array of private 
houses, the suburban characteristics yield, in general, to those of 
the watering-place. 

COHASSET, Norfolk Co., Mass. 
22 miles from Boston. Hotel — Black Bock House. 

The South Shore branch of the Old Colony Railroad terminates 
at this village, which lies along the rocky shores of Pleasant Cove, 
many of its houses commanding a fine ocean view, including 
the solitary stone tower on Minot's Ledge. Between the railway 
station and North Cohasset are several good hotels ; among them, 
the Nantasket House, the Rockmlle House, the Rockland House, 
Smithes, the Minot's House, the Pleasant Beach House, and several 
others. The bathing at Cohasset is of the " surf " variety, and save 
in some exceptionally sheltered places, can seldom be called "still." 
The coast in the vicinity is exceedingly rough ; and as it is fully ex- 
posed to the force of the waves, unusually good opportunities are 
afforded for witnessing the grandeur of their action during a gale. 
Unitarian, Congregational, and Methodist churches are in the 
village, and the schools, public and private, are well conducted. 
All kinds of salt-water fish are caught in the harbor and along 
the rocks, and by taking a boat, the larger fish, which are found 
only in deeper water, may be caught. MinoVs Ledge Lighthouse 
is one of the most remarkable specimens of this style of architec- 
ture in the world. Prior to its erection, this coast was among the 
most fatal to mariners of any along the Atlantic seaboard. Six 
miles southward from Cohasset is Scituate, a village not unlike 
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there are ten or fifteen boarding-houses. The surf and still 
bathing are excellent, and the usual sea-side sports are to be had in 
perfection, though not with the most complete artificial accessories. 
Marshfield, the home of Daniel Webster during the last years of 
his life, and the scene of his death, is about two miles distant ; 
and a few miles farther to the southward is Dwcbury, where the 
French Atlantic Telegraph Cable, the second which was success- 
fully laid, was landed in 1869, and has up to the present time 
worked perfectly. A delightfully quiet and dreamy old place, 
where one forgets all about the rush of worldly affairs. The 
' ' Old Oaken Bucket " is among the attractions of the neighborhood, 
and MinoVs Ledge is within sailing distance. 

PLYMOUTH, Plymouth Co., Mass. 
37 miles from Boston. Hotel — Samoset House. 

The site of the first settlement made by civilized man in New 
England is probably better known from its historical associations 
than from its advantages as a place of resort. Nevertheless, its 
surroundings are very beautiful, and those who take up their sum- 
mer abodes amid its hills and lakes are perhaps wiser than the 
merely transient visitors. A wide extent of woodland still sur- 
rounds the town, and through this are pleasant drives, leading 
past ponds and lakes which appear at the most unlooked-for mo- 
ments. Deer are still found in these woods, which consist mostly 
of oak and pine, and are intersected in all directions by roads, 
sandy, but always passable. Few districts in New England afford 
such attractions for the angler as does the vicinity of Plymouth. 
A list of a dozen or more ponds might easily be given, where red 
and white perch and pickerel are found in abundance, and many 
of the larger ponds and lakes have been, for the last twenty years, 
stocked with that favorite game-fish, the black-bass, so that ex- 
cellent sport may be had. The salt water, too, is not behind- 
hand in furnishing sport for the angler. Codfish, tautog, and 
mackerel are plenty in their proper season in the bay, and sailing 
and bathing are among the constant pastimes of visitors. Ply- 
mouth has, in fact, become a popular resort, and it is more than 
probable that its popularity is destined to increase as its attrac- 
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sant. Its hotels are as well kept as the average of sea-side houses — 
their rates being from $1.50 to $2 per day, or from $6 to $12 per 
week. There are several boarding-houses, charging about $10 by 
the week. Plymouth has churches of nearly all the largest de- 
nominations, a list which would have been contemplated with 
horror by the Pilgrim Fathers, could they have looked forward to 
the present time. As the landing-place of the Pilgrims, on Decem- 
ber 22d, 1620, Plymouth will always possess a surpassing interest 
for New Englanders, who, though they may not wholly admire the 
Puritans as lawgivers or as theologians, are yet proud to be the 
descendants of men and women whose courage and zeal was such 
as to enable them to overcome obstacles which would have dis- 
couraged weaker spirits. The obje3ts of local interest at Pilgrim 
Hall, and at the old grave-yard on Burial Hill, and what is left of 
Plymouth Rock itself, will of course receive attention from all 
visitors, and the excellent historical manual will give all informa- 
tion concerning the Pilgrims in a much more interesting form 
than our space permits. 



CAPE COD. 

Cape Cod is reached by a branch of the Old Colony Railroad, 
which begins at Middleboro. 

MATTAPOISETT, Plymouth Co., Mass. 
57 miles from Boston. Hotel — Mattapoisett House. 

Matta-Poisett, being interpreted, means " a place of rest." It 
is pleasantly located on the shore of Buzzard's Bay, six miles 
east of New Bedford, and within two hours of Boston by rail. 
The view of the bay from the village is very fine. The bathing 
is "still," and especially suited to persons of delicate constitu- 
tion, as the water averages 10° warmer than that of Boston Bay. 
The inhabitants disclaim mosquitoes in toto. This place is on the 
Fairhaven Branch of the Old Colony R. R. 

MARION, Plymouth Co., Mass- 
65 miles from Boston. Hotels — Marion House, Bay View. 

One of the arms of Buzzard's Bay reaches inland for the bene- 
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character, is in direct communication with the world by the 
Fair haven Branch Railroad. Like many of the towns along this 
coast, it is favored in the way of walks and drives, while its 
proximity to the salt water gives it many of the attractions of its 
more pretentious neighbors. The islands and coves of Buzzard's 
Bay afford great attractions for sailing parties. Still-bathing, 
near the hotels, in water which is several degrees warmer than in 
Massachusetts Bay, north of Cape Cod. South Wareham {Ken- 
(trick's Hotel), and East Wareham are quiet villages on inlets of 
Buzzard's Bay. At Cohassett Narrows is the junction with the 
branch railroad to Woods' Hole. (See page 54. ) 

COTUIT POET, Barnstable Co., Mass. 
79 mites from Boston. Hotel — Santuit House. 

Overlooking Martha's Vineyard Sound, and in the midst of a 
charming country, Cotuit Port is admirably suited for a resort. 
The village is a small one, and possesses in itself but few attrac- 
tions to the tourist, but the Santuit House makes the place a very 
desirable summer residence. The building is fitted with well- 
ventilated and well-furnished rooms, wide piazzas, and all the 
appointments which can be reasonably expected in a first-class 
hotel. Charges, $3 a day ; $10 to $15 a week. Several fur- 
nished cottages are to be had on application to Mr. J. Coleman, 
the proprietor of the house. The surroundings of Cotuit Port 
are quite remarkable. The beautiful harbor, with its islands, 
is spread out before the hotel, affording ample space for sailing 
and excellent grounds for fishing. Within a radius of four miles 
are no less than thirty fresh-water ponds ; among which may be 
mentioned Wakely Lake, thickly studded with islands, and Kano- 
mut Lake, noted for its picturesque beauty. As may be readily 
inferred, the drives around and among these charming ponds are of 
almost unequalled variety. The bathing-houses are within five 
minutes' walk of the hotel, affording good opportunities for still- 
bathing. The ocean beach, with surf-bathing, is one mile dis- 
tant. Deer, foxes, rabbits, quail, plover, etc., etc., are to be 
hunted in their season, and blue-fish, Spanish mackerel, rock and 
striped bass, and all their briny relatives, are caught in abun- 
dance. The village has a "Union" church, where services are 
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held by the different denominations in turn, or as opportunity 
occurs. To reach Cotuit Port take the Old Colony Railway to 
Middleboro' , and thence to West Barnstable, where stages to the 
" Port," six miles distant, are always awaiting the arrival of trains. 

YARMOUTH, Barnstable Co., Mass. 

This town was once of considerable commercial importance, but 

is now a sleepy old seaport with some 2,500 inhabitants, of whom, 

by the way, one in ten served in the Union army in the war of the 

rebellion. A branch R.R. runs hence to Hyannis on the South Shore. 

HYANNIS, Barnstable Co-, Mass. 
79 miles from Boston. Hotels — Iyanough House, Hallet House. 

Hyannis is equally a resort for sportsmen and tourists. There 
is capital plover and snipe shooting in the season. The fish- 
ing is not particularly good, but rather better for the fresh than 
for the salt water kinds. The Baptist, Congregational, and Uni- 
versalist societies have churches in the village. About Hyannis 
are some excellent beaches at the foot of high bluffs covered with 
beautiful groves. The steamer line formerly running from this 
place to Nantucket has been discontinued, and the point of de- 
parture from the main-land to that place is now at Wood's Hole. 
Chatham connects by stage with the railroad at Harwick, seven 
miles distant. The village is in full sight of the ocean, and the 
ceaseless passing of vessels adds much to the life and variety 
of the seaward view. The surf and still bathing are good, as are 
also the fishing and shooting. 

WELLFLEET, Barnstable Co., Mass. 
60 miles from Boston. Hotel — Holbrookes Hotel. 

Wellfleet is surrounded by the characteristic sand hills of the 
region, but is swept by breezes as pure and strengthening as ever 
were breathed. A range of hills, of clay and sand, run along 
toward Provincetown, forming the backbone of Cape Cod. Among 
these hills are many fresh-water ponds, which present irresistible 
attraction to water-fowl during autumn ; these in turn alluring 
numerous sportsmen bent upon shooting everything that flies. 
In 1717, a famous pirate, Bellamy by name, suffered shipwreck 
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were broken up, and for many years coins were picked up on the 
beach. Most of the pirates who survived were captured and 
executed ; but some escaped, and for a long time a man of very 
singular and frightful aspect used to appear every spring and 
autumn, remaining only a few days and then mysteriously disap- 
pearing. It was supposed that he came, as occasion required, to 
take money from some place where it had been concealed, a sup- 
position which was in some degree justified by the fact that 
many pieces of gold were found upon his person when he died. 
The bathing at Wellfleet can scarcely be called surf-bathing, as 
the beach is on the inner side of the Cape. The hotels can accom- 
modate fifty or sixty guests apiece, and the three or four board- 
ing-houses have received a score or so more. 

PROVINCETOWN, Barnstable Co., Mass. 
50 miles from Boston by water. Hotels — Oifford, Central, Pil- 
grim, Atlantic. 

Here we are at the extremity of that remarkable arm-shaped 
strip of land with which, as somebody has said, " Massachusetts 
is perpetually ' squaring off' at the rest of the world." Province- 
town is the doubled and inward bent fist of this arm. The vil- 
lage was settled about 1700, and it is not very complimentary to 
the attractive character of the country that in 1727, and for some 
time thereafter, the inhabitants were exempted by law from tax- 
ation ; notwithstanding which beneficent provision the population 
was, in 1748, reduced to two or three families. The salt and 
fishing trade, however, restored its prosperity, and now the village 
stretches for two miles along the beach, and is blessed with a 
reasonable degree of prosperity. The harbor of Provincetown 
was the first resting-place of the May-flower on her tedious voyage 
to Plymouth, in 1620. Daily boats run to and from Boston ; and 
this quaint and peculiar port is visited by many tourists. 

FALMOUTH, Barnstable Co., Mass. 

This township comprises the point of land which separates 
Buzzard's Bay from Vineyard Sound. From Cohassett Narrows 
to Woods' Hole runs a branch railroad whose trains connect at 
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with Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Stern's House, Pocasset, 
Red Brook House, Bay View Cottage, and other smaller houses on 
Buzzards' Bay Shore, are places of resort. Falmouth Heights has 
numerous cottages, groves, lakes, andTowefs Hotel. Woods' Hole, 
the terminus of the road, has a bold coast whose eminences com- 
mand fine views of the Sound. Many of the eligible sites are oc- 
cupied by the cottages of summer residents, and the village 
affords accommodations for boarders. 

NEW BEDFORD, Bristol Co., Mass. 
61 miles from Boston. Hotels — Parker House, Mansion House. 

This city stands on the west side of the Acushnet River, which 
empties into Buzzard's Bay. Although its fleet is less than half 
its former tonnage, it still deserves the title of the Whaling City. 
Large manufactories have taken the place of the whaling busi- 
ness, among them the Wamsutta Mills, whose cotton cloth is not 
excelled in the country. The situation of New Bedford affords 
fine views of the harbor, and of Fair Haven, opposite, the termi- 
nus of the Fair Haven Branch Railroad. The town is neatly laid 
out, contains an imposing Town Hall and Custom House, a num- 
ber of churches, a public library, and a theatre Large water- 
works have been constructed, at an expeDse of about $700,000, 
although there is a plentiful supply of excellent well-water. The 
drives about the town are unusually attractive, that around 
Clark's Point being five miles long, and along the margin of the 
Bay for its entire distance. This drive is kept perfectly smooth, 
and is a charming resort for visitors. New Bedford is connected 
by steamers or R. R. with Boston, Providence, and Fall River. 
There is a regular steamer to Martha's Vineyard. The Old Colony 
Railroad and its branches afford easy means of access by land, 
and an excellent daily line of sea-going propellers runs to and 
from New York. 

MARTHA'S VINEYARD, Duke's Co., Mass. 

This island, constituting in itself a county of Massachusetts, 
lies about five miles off the main land, from which it is separated 
by Vineyard Sound. It is some twenty-five miles in extreme 
length and twelve miles in its greatest width. It was discovered 

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in 1602 by Capt. Goswold. The origin of its name is unknown, 
but it is probable that Martha was a friend of the Captain's. 
It is only within a few years that the peculiarly salubrious 
climate of this island has become known to the public. The 
Methodists were the first, after the permanent residents, to make 
the discovery, and they established a camp-ground at Oak Bluffs. 
Gradually people came earlier and stayed later as they learned the 
advantages of the climate ; cottages were built, the non-Methodist 
world came in, and now at the height of the season there are 
20,000 to 30,000 persons on the ground. The season culminates 
during camp-meeting week in the latter part of August, but the 
old extravagancies of the traditional camp -meeting have long 
since disappeared, and the religious services are decorously con- 
ducted under the leadership of the most distinguished preachers 
of this powerful and well-organized denomination. The city of 
cottages at Cak Bluffs is a great curiosity, and the life of the cot- 
tagers is exceptionally free from care and from the complications 
which are the bane of fashionable resorts. The fashionable life 
of the place centres in and around the Sea View Hotel, a large 
and admirably appointed building with all the modern conveni- 
ences. Its rate is $4.50 per day. The other hotels are the High- 
land House, Baxter, Pawnee, Central, Island, Grover, etc. These, 
with the exception of the first, which is a hotel, are mainly res- 
taurants, but all have small sleeping rooms to let. As restaurants, 
most of them are excellent, and the prices are moderate. Fur- 
nished cottages may be rented for the season from $100 upward. 
There are no boarding-houses, in the ordinary meaning of the 
term, but rooms can be rented at $1 a day at many of the cot- 
tages. Meals are usually obtained at the restaurants. There is 
little or no surf on the bathing beach at Oak Bluffs, except when 
the wind is from the eastward. The water is very clear and 
buoyant, holding in solution an unusually large percentage of 
salt. * Blue-fish are caught in great abundance within easy sailing 
distance, and the other kinds of coast fish are found along the 
reefs and harbors. 

The Baptists have established a camp ground on an elevation 
known as the Highlands, west of the Bluffs ; and another city 

promises to make its appearance there in due time. 

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From Oak Bluffs Landing to Edgartown and Katama a narrow- 
gauge steam railway runs along the beach a distance of seven or 
eight miles. Edgartown is a decadent whaling port, with many 
comfortable houses where board can be obtained at moderate 
rates. There are a few small hotels. There is good still bathing 
and a safe land-locked harbor for amateur boating. 

Katama is at the extremity of Edgartown harbor, near the 
ocean on South Beach. There are a few cottages and a fine 
hotel (Mattakeset Lodge). It may be reached by rail several 
times a day from Oak Bluffs or Edgartown. The surf on the 
neighboring ocean beach is very fine, but bathing is dangerous, 
owing to the existence of quicksands and a heavy undertow. 

Vineyard Haven is a considerable town on an excellent harbor 
known as Holmes' Hole, where hundreds of coasters take refuge in 
heavy weather. It lies two miles west of Oak Bluffs. Many 
summer boarders find lodgings there, but there are no large 
hotels. The western part of the island is little visited by tourists. 
An occasional party is made up by land or water to Gay Head, 
its farthest point, but for the most part it is left to the solitude 
of its oak-woods and breezy downs. Gay Head is a remarkable 
bluff at the extreme western point of the island, deriving its name 
from the variegated colors of the hardened clay of which it is 
composed. After a rain, its appearance under a bright sunlight 
is, to use a terse expression, polychromatic. The ocean view from 
the top of the cliff is extraordinarily fine. 

Boats run daily from New Bedford, Woods' Hole, and Hyannis. 
The shortest water route is by rail to Woods' Hole, and thence 
across the sound to the Vineyard landings. This course avoids 
the somewhat rough waters of Buzzard's Bay, but is circuitous 
for travellers from the direction of New York. An excellent line 
of sea-going steamers run daily between New York and New 
Bedford, connecting with the Vineyard boats. Any of the Sound 
bteamers, indeed, connect closely with trains which run directly 
to New Bedford. The Portland and New York Line afford the 
most direct water route, as it lands passengers at the wharf in 
Holmes' Hole. Passengers by this route, however, should pro- 
vide for sea- sickness, as a heavy ground swell is usually encoun- 
tered. 

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NANTUCKET, Nantucket Co., Mass. 
Hotels — Ocean House, Adams House. 

With its dependencies, the island of Nantucket is about twenty 
miles long-, and owing to its complete separation from the main- 
land, is very peculiar in many of its social and physical aspects. 
Its outer coast is exposed to the full force of the Atlantic waves, " 
and few places afford such opportunities for viewing the ocean in 
its immensity. The island was discovered in 1002, and settled in 
1659. During the early part of the century it had great commer- 
cial importance as a whaling station, and much wealth was accu- 
mulated in this business. The town is full of quaint reminders 
of "by-gone prosperity ; but its decadence is complete now, and it 
looks to summer visitors as its only hope of resuscitation. 

Siasconset is a village situated on a bluff on the eastern side of 
the island. It is a favorite resort, and once visited is always 
remembered. It contains a good hotel and several comfortable 
boarding-houses. 

Fishing, riding, and sailing are the amusements and exercises 
most in vogue, and capital still-bathing is to be found near all 
the places of resort. The surf-bathing is unsafe except for 
strong swimmers. The health of the climate is vouched for by 
the fact that of the 4,132 inhabitants, according to the census of 
1870, 392 were over 70 years of age, nearly nine and a half per 
cent. There are on the island Congregational, Unitarian, Epis- 
copal, Baptist, Methodist and Friends' churches, or rather, so far 
as the last-named sect is concerned, meeting-houses. Visitors are 
almost invariably delighted with the place. It was a prosperous 
town prior to the Revolution, and continued so until within a 
few years, when, with the decline of the whale fishery, its busi- 
ness was destroyed. But its tidy streets, plain but homelike 
houses, its pure air and refreshing, health-producing sea breezes, 
are particularly pleasant to the invalid. To the business man, or 
one seeking relief for an overtaxed brain, the isolation of the . 
place, its quiet, and its peculiarities, seem to be well adapted. 
The thermometer in the hottest weather rarely rises above eighty 
degrees, and the nights are always comfortably cool. 

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Although the smallest of the United States, Rhode Island has 
her full share of watering-places, thanks to the picturesque shores 
of Narragansett Bay, the numerous islands which stud its waters, 
and the fine stretch of beach between Point Judith and Watch 
Hill. That this is the most beautiful of the largfer New England 
Bays, probably few who are uninfluenced by sectional partiality 
will deny. It is situated wholly within the boundaries of the 
State of Rhode Island, extending nearly thirty miles inland, in a 
northerly direction, and not exceeding fifteen miles in width. It. 
receives its name from a noted and powerful tribe of Indians who 
formerly held possession of its islands and adjacent territory, and 
the numerous contests between the early settlers and these red 
men have rendered it and its vicinity rich in historic interest. It 
is very irregular in its outline, being made up of bays and sounds 
by the score. It is this very irregularity, however, that gives it a 
peculiar charm, and one has no sooner entered it than he seems 
to be sailing over some inland lake, instead of an arm of the sea. 
Within it is the island of Rhode Island, from which the State re- 
ceives its name, upon which is situated Newport, whose attrac- 
tions for the fashionable world are widely known. Other islands 
are scattered over its surface, enhancing its beauty, and affording 
locations for the more retired and less brilliant resorts which are 
sought for by those who do not desire to mingle in the gayeties of 
Newport. Its waters are remarkable for their clearness and 
depth, admitting the largest vessels with ease. Protected by the 
surrounding land, it forms, as it were, one vast harbor, where the 
fleets of nations might ride in safety. The scenery is varied 
and picturesque ; and although a rocky and inhospitable shore 
guards its entrance against the encroachments of the ocean, the 

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shores of the bay itself are of a different character, sloping gradu- 
ally from the water's edge, and presenting in many places a fer- 
tile and cultivated aspect, unusual near the ocean. Here and 
there are delightful watering-places, whose easy access from the 
adjoining towns and cities causes them to be thronged in the 
summer season with the lovers of fashion and pleasure. As re- 
gards sailing, fishing, and sea-bathing, it possesses all the advan- 
tages of the ocean itself, without its attendant dangers. Its deep 
waters and narrow entrance render it very valuable as a naval ren- 
ezvous, and the Government provided for its defence by erecting 
ort Adams, one of the largest permanent fortifications in the 
ountry. The points which define the extreme east and west 
oundaries are respectively Seacannet Point and Point Judith, 
hese are about fifteen miles apart, and each is provided with a 
light-house. 

PROVIDENCE, Providence Co., R. I. 

189 miles from JScio York. From Boston 44. Hotels — City, 

Perrin House, Thayer's Hotel. 

Although this city is not to be classed as a resort, its impor- 
tance, in a commercial point of view justifies a brief sketch in 
these pages. Providence was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, 
who fled from Massachusetts in consequence of religious intole- 
rance, and established the first government founded upon absolute 
liberty of conscience. During King Philip's War, Providence had 
a hard struggle for existence, and was at one time nearly de- 
stroyed ; but during the Revolution it was prosperous, and the 
foundations of its present wealth and prosperity were laid. The 
city is situated thirty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean,- at the 
head of Narragansett Bay, on and between its two northern arms, 
called Seekonk and Providence Rivers. Running into the latter, 
at its upper extremity, the Cove, in the centre of the city, are the 
Moshassuck and Wonasquatucket Rivers. By the valleys of these 
streams and the Providence River the city is divided into three 
distinct portions, of different heights above tide-water. The most 
eastern portion rises to an elevation of 204 feet, and is called 
Prospect or College Hill. Providence River, extending from the 
Cove to Narragansett Bay, bisects the business portion of the city, 
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and three broad bridges, just below the Cove, connect the por- 
tions thus separated. Providence is highly distinguished for its 
literary and educational institutions. Brown University was 
originally founded at Warren in 1764, and removed to Providence 
in 1770. It is situated on College Hill, east of Providence River, 
and commands an extensive, varied, and beautiful prospect of the 
city, harbor, and surrounding country. It comprises five princi- 
pal buildings, namely, Manning Hall, in which is the library, con- 
taining 33,000 volumes ; Rhode Island Hall, containg the cabinet, 
chemical and philosophical apparatus, and lecture-rooms ; Uni- 
versity Hall and Hope College, two large four-story edifices, oc- 
cupied by students, and the laboratory, a large two-story brick 
and brown-stone building, recently built, and containing the most 
approved appliances and apparatus for chemical studies. Con- 
nected with the University is a scientific school, established for 
the benefit of those who do not wish to pursue a classical course. 
Brown stands among the first colleges in the country in its facili- 
ties for instruction, and the character and ability of its faculty. 
The Public Schools of Providence have obtained a high reputation 
for the thoroughness and efficiency of their training. They have 
been fostered with laborious care and at a liberal expense. The 
Friends' Yearly Meeting Boarding-school is beautifully situated on 
the eastern slope of Prospect Hill, occupying about forty-three 
acres of grounds. The buildings are large and commodious. The 
institution is liberally endowed, and is in a highly prosperous con- 
dition. A large part of the capital owned in the city is employed 
in manufacturing enterprises in the immediate vicinity, the 
various rivers which abound in the neighborhood affording abun- 
dant water-power. Among the most important of the works may 
be mentioned the American Screw Company, the Corliss Steam- 
Engine Works, the Atlantic Delaine Mills, and the Oriental Mills. 
These are but a few among the many manufactories in the 
vicinity. 

The railroads diverging from Providence are the Providence and 
Stonington, connecting with New York, via the Shore Line Ra.il- 
road, and also via the Stonington Line of steamboats on Long 
Island Sound; the Providence and Worcester Railroad to Wor- 
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Railroad, to Waterbury, Ct., 123 miles; the Boston and Provi- 
dence, and the Providence, Warren, and Bristol Railroads. The 
Neptune Line of steamers leave Providence for New York daily 
at five p.m., and Pier 27 North River, New York, at the same 
hour. Steamers for Newport and the bay landings leave Provi- 
dence at hours which can be readily ascertained at the hotels. 

VUE DE L'EAU, Seekonk, Bristol Co., R. I. 
As its name indicates, this place commands a fine view of the 
Providence River and Narragansett Bay. It is a delightful sub- 
urban village, upon elevated ground, the shores being steep and 
rocky. The Vue de VEau Blouse is spacious and commodious, and 
its site one of the pleasantest along the bay. Among the neigh- 
boring attractions are several shady groves where picnics are fre- 
quently held in the summer season. About a mile south of Vue 
de l'Eau, on Sabin's Point, is the Narragansett House, another 
pleasant summer boarding-place. Smith's Palace, Silver Spring 
House, and Ocean Cottage are also popular summer resorts. Each 
receives a liberal patronage. 

WICKFORD, Washington Co., R. I. 
168 miles from New Yo?-k. From Providence, 20. 

Wickford station is two miles from the village, but the latter is 
in direct communication with it by means of a branch railroad 
running from Kingston on the Shore Line R. R. , to Wickford and 
forming part of the Shore Line R. R. route from New York or 
Providence to Newport. The village is situated on the shore of 
Narragansett Bay, whose island-studded waters are in full view. 
Hotel accommodations are as yet somewhat scant, but good board 
is obtained in private families at $7 to $10 per week. Of the two 
churches, Episcopal and Baptist, the former was built in 1707. 
Besides this ancient edifice there are several other houses which 
are interesting on account of their age. There is no surf-bathing 
at Wickford, and the chief amusements are boating, fishing, and 
hunting. From March to July very fair trouting is to be had in 
the brooks, and at all times the usual salt-water fish are caught 
in the bay. The village is easily reached via the Stonington and 
Providence Railway, whose termini are in direct communication 
by boat and rail with the great cities. 

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BOCKY POINT, Warwick, Kent Co., R. I. 

Hotel — Rocky Point Hotel. 

About half-way between Providence and Newport; is chiefly 
patronized by parties in search of a few hours' entertainment and 
a breath of the sea air. Nevertheless the hotel affords accommo- 
dations for numerous guests, and its hundred adjacent acres, 
containing groves, grottoes, walks, bowling alleys, billiard rooms, 
etc. , etc. , make up a sum total which presents unusual attrac- 
tions to permanent and transient visitors. Clam-bakes are a 
specialty at Rocky Point, being prepared in the most scientific 
manner by " professors," whose life -long occupation has been 
baking Narragansett clams, and who are perfectly aufait in all 
the mysteries of that branch of science. The hotel has a tower 
170 feet high, from which an enchanting view of the bay and 
islands may be obtained. The bathing-houses are well appointed 
and the beach safe. During the summer, boats make five trips 
daily from Providence to the various landings on the bay shores ; 
the charge for the round trip being only 50 cents. Marked Bock, 
a few miles further north, is another noted place for excursions 
and picnic parties. It is reached by boat from Providence. 

NEWPORT, Newport Co., R. I. 

165 miles from New York. From Boston 71. Hotels— Ocean 
House, Aquidneck House, United States, The Cliff House, 
Cliff Cottage Hotel, Perry House. 
It is a pity that the Indian name of the island whereon Newport 
stands was not retained, either in its original form " Aquidneck," 
or in its English equivalent " The Isle of Peace ; " but Governor 
Coddington, who with seventeen associates purchased the island 
from the Sachems in 1638, thought otherwise, and named it ac- 
cordingly " The Isle of Rhodes," in consequence of a supposed 
resemblance to the famous island in the iEgean Sea. This has 
been naturally abbreviated into Rhode Island, and by that name 
it will probably be known to posterity. The commercial prosperity 
of Newport began early in the history of the country, when, 
owino- to its magnificent harbor, it became one of the principal 
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general commerce, and surpassed it in the special branches of 
whaling and trade with Africa and the Indies. It is painful to add 
that many of the fortunes which were accumulated by citizens of 
Newport were the result of a vigorous prosecution of the African 
slave trade. On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, New- 
port was to a great extent deserted by its inhabitants, and being 
left in a defenceless state, was occupied by the British for the 
three years succeeding 1776. It was used for the most part as a 
naval station, though some 8,000 English and Hessians were 
during most of the time either quartered in the town or encamped 
in its suburbs. When the town was evacuated, many buildings 
were wantonly destroyed. At this time the inhabitants numbered 
only about 4,000 souls ; and although efforts were at once made 
to restore its prosperity as a commercial port, it never recovered 
from the depressing effects of British occupation. It is unfor- 
tunate that the town records were either carried off or destroyed 
by the British, for with them was lost the only source of infor- 
mation regarding the glory of ante-revolutionary Newport. The 
town still contains many objects of historical interest and evidences 
of the liberal-mindedness of her citizens The Round Tower, to 
begin with the edifice which has presumably the greatest antiquity, 
stands in the centre of an open lot, surrounded by an iron railing, 
and is carefully guared from the spoilers by the city authorities. 
Its origin is sufficiently shrouded in mystery to justify every one in 
his or her own opinion. Matter-of-fact people can call it Bene- 
dict Arnold's Mill, and point to his will, wherein a " Stone-built 
Wind Mill" is mentioned; but, on the other hand, those who 
incline to the more romantic view, can claim that even Benedict 
Arnold knew better than to build a mill supported on seven 
detached columns. Mr. Longfellow, in his poem " The Skeleton 
in Armor," connects this tower with a skeleton clad in rusty 
armor, which was discovered some years ago at Fall River, Mass. ; 
and as there are several facts which indicate that the Norsemen 
landed in this vicinity long before the discoveries of Columbus, 
no one who wishes to look upon the tower as the work of the 
Vikings and their followers, need hesitate to do so. Whoever 
desires to investigate the subject farther, will find it fully dis- 
cussed in a pamphlet published by Charles E. Hammet, of New- 

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port, and entitled " The Stone Mill Controversy." The Redwood 
Library, near the Opera House, was established by Abraham 
Redwood in 1750. It originated in connection with a literary and 
philosophical society, which was instituted when Bishop Berkeley 
lived on the island, and of which the Bishop was a prominent and 
illustrious member. A donation of £500 for this society by Abra- 
ham Redwood, for the purchase of standard works, laid the 
foundation for the library. The building is of the Doric order of 
architecture, and contains, besides the library of some 15,000 
volumes, a valuable collection of paintings and statuary. It has 
since received valuable additional gifts from time to time, and 
the building has been enlarged and improved. It is a place of 
general resort, and a great boon to the reading public. Strangers 
are allowed a free entrance, and will find much here that will in- 
terest them. Trinity Church was built early in the last century, 
and stands upon the site of the first Episcopal place of worship 
erected on the island. Here Washington, Lafayette, and other 
revolutionary worthies attended divine service. Its ancient and 
quaint appearance, with its high-backed pews, its pulpit in the 
centre of the congregation, its venerable organ, presented to the 
church by Bishop Berkeley on his return to Dublin, contrast 
strangely with the modern inventions for a refined worship found 
in the sanctuaries of to-day. Around it, in the old cemetery, rest 
the ashes of not a few illustrious men. The Jewish Synagogue, 
on Touro Street, was built in 1672, and until the Revolution was 
regularly opened for worship. It was then the only place in New 
England where Hebrew was chanted and read at the weekly ser- 
vice. At that time there were many Jewish families of wealth 
upon the island. Abraham Touro left $20,000 in the hands of the 
city authorities, the interest of which is, in accordance with the 
wishes of the testator, expended in keeping the synagogue, the 
grounds, and the street leading to them in repair. Washington 
Square is the principal square in Newport, and contains the City 
Hall, Commodore Perry's House, the Mall — an inclosed triangular 
piece of ground, shaded with trees — and other public buildings. 
This square was named after Washington, who at his first visit to 
Newport, passed through it on his way to Count Rochambeau's 
head- quarters. The principal hotel is the Ocean House, which 

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stands nearest the ocean's beach. From its rooms and cupola 
some of the grandest and most extensive views of the ocean and 
harbor can be obtained. Block Island, thirty miles to the south- 
west, and several smaller islands in Narragansett Bay, are visible 
in clear weather. The hotel is nicely furnished, and affords 
ample space upon its wide piazzas for pleasant promenades. A 
fine band of music is usually employed for the season, and the 
Ocean House hops and balls are reckoned among the most brilliant 
entertainments of our American summer resorts. The price of 
board is $4.50 per day, with special rates, according to rooms, by 
the week or season. The house opens about the last of June. 

The First Beach is nearest to the hotels, most available for 
bathing purposes, and is the favorite resort for promenaders and 
spectators, as well as for bathers. This beach is lined with 
bathing-houses, for the use of which a small fee is charged ; and 
as the sand composing the beach is of the whitest and hardest 
and cleanest, it is no wonder that thousands resort thither daily 
at high tide, and, arrayed in the most fantastic and brilliant 
dresses, indulge in the healthful and charming exercise of surf- 
bathing. On a fine day in midsummer this beach affords as 
amusing a spectacle as can be found on the coast. The Bluff 
terminates this beach. It is a picturesque collection of gray 
rocks, piled in every possible shape, and affording numberless 
quiet nooks where one may sit and enjoy the beauty of sea and 
shore. Near the northern extremity of the bluff is a deep chasm, 
known as u Purgatory." It was probably formed by the washing 
away of the softer portion of the rock, leaving the hard, conglom- 
erate, gray rocks in the most ragged and fantastical shapes im- 
aginable. The chasm is one hundred and sixty feet long, and 
fifty feet deep at the outer end. In some places it is only eight 
feet wide at the top, and occasionally some adventurous or fool- 
hardy person leaps, or attempts to leap, across it. As one side 
is higher than the other, this is no easy task. Near by are the 
Hanging Rocks, "within whose shadow it is said that Bishop 
Berkeley wrote his Minute Philosopher" Sachuset Beach stretches 
eastward from the Bluff. In its general characteristics it is simi- 
lar to Easton's Beach, being in an equal degree exposed to the 
force of the Atlantic waves. This beach terminates in Sachuset 

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Point. During the Revolution, a British guard boat was stationed 
off this point to blockade the East River. She was captured, 
with all hands on board, by Major Talbot, and a party of Ameri- 
cans. Singularly enough, not a life was lost on either side. 
Sachuset Point is a favorite place with fishermen for tautog oi 
black-fish. These are caught from the rocks in great abundance. 
The immediate vicinity is a feeding-ground for the nobler game 
of bass and horse-mackerel, the capture of which requires con- 
siderable skill, and affords exciting sport. 

Bellevue and Ocean Avenues offer an uninterrupted drive of 
many miles along the coast, with the Atlantic in full view for 
almost the entire distance. Carroll Avenue leads to the Spouting 
Horn, a romantic spot where, during southeasterly gales, the 
scene is described as very magnificent, the sea dashing up in a 
terrific manner through a rocky chasm. Near by is Lilly Pond, 
the largest sheet of fresh water on the island. The pond is well 
supplied with perch, which may be taken from the shore with 
an ordinary rod and line. At the foot of Bellevue Avenue is a 
boat-house, and beyond this is an infinite variety of beaches, 
rocky promontories, and sheltered inlets, affording numerous sites 
for cottages and villas, which line this part of the coast. The 
Glen, six miles from Newport by the East Road, is a favorite re- 
sort for the lovers of nature. It may be reached by several roads 
besides the one mentioned, each possessing beauties peculiar to 
itself. The Glen is a deep valley shaded by a dense growth of 
forest trees, through which a brook runs, adding, by the music 
of its mimic falls and rapids, to the sylvan attractions of the 
place. 

Fort Adams, situated on Brenton Point, south of Newport, is 
easily reached by land or water, the latter being the most popular 
route. This is one of the largest permanent works in the United 
States. It was begun in 1814, and finished in 1860. It is capa- 
ble of mounting 468 heavy guns, and its maximum garrison is 
3,000 men. It may be visited at all hours of the day. It is, in 
fact, quite the thing to drive or sail to the fort of an afternoon 
hear the band play, witness the ceremony of dress parade, and 
return before sunset. Fort Dumplings, or more properly Fort 
Brown, can be visited only by boat, as it is situated on Conanticut 

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Island, just at the mouth of the outer harbor. This is a favorite 
resort for picnic or chowder parties. Rose Island has the re- 
mains of an old British fort, but is devoid of natural attractions. 

NARRAGANSETT PIER, Washington Co., R. I. 

This resort has wholly developed since 1856, when, as tradition 
hath it, the first family of boarders took up their quarters in a farm- 
house. Since that time visitors have multiplied, until now there 
are hotels and boarding-houses by the score, and even old hab- 
itues look patronizingly across the bay at Newport. The Tower 
Hill House is the principal hotel. It stands on an elevation which 
commands a superb Yiew, and its appointments and surroundings 
are most complete and satisfactory. It is at a considerable dis- 
tance from the shore, to which, however, horse-cars run. Of the 
multitude of other hotels and boarding-houses, we may mention 
the Wholey, Narragansett, Elmwood, Sea View, Metoloxet, and 
Ocean houses, where guests find entertainment at various 
.prices. The Continental, Mt. Hope, and Mathewsorts, charging 
$3 per day or $18 per week ; and the Atlantic, Attwood, 
Revere, Hazard, Maxon, Mansion, Delevan, charging $2. 50 per day, 
or $15 per week. Most of them accommodate 50 to 100 guests 
each. The denizens of Narragansett Pier profess to be less given 
to style than their neighbors at Newport, and the mode of life is 
decidedly more simple. The fishing is the great attraction for 
gentlemen, as fine bass, tautog, and other fish are taken with rod 
and line from the rocks. The bathing is good, but the surf is not 
so fine as at Newport. 

It is not without cause that this resort has attained such cele- 
brity and become so popular ; for its position, central to so many 
populous cities, its fine beach, both for driving and bathing, its 
good fishing and sailing, make its advantages marked. But the 
traditional good fellowship of its society, the absence of tedious 
and often cold and repelling formalities, the jolly and generous 
character of its amusements, the absence of any law requiring 
ladies to dress six times a day, or fining gentlemen found in blue 
shirts on the piazzas of an afternoon ; in short, the sensible and 
kind sociability of guests constitutes the charm, as it also makes 
the success of Narragansett Pier. The view from the heights is 

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especially admired, including- many villages and a hundred miles 
of horizon. The ocean and the Bay, with all their changing phases 
of storm and calm, their white sails of commerce and of pleasure, 
Point Judith and the lakes of South Kingston, make up a picture 
never to be forgotten. 

Narragansetb Pier is reached from New York by the Shore Line 
Railroad, or by the Stonington Boats to Stonington, and thence 
by Shore Line Railroad to Kingston Junction, where connection 
is made with trains from New York and Boston. Some twenty 
trains daily. No change of cars is required on New York and 
Boston express trains to the Pier. The readiest connection 
between the Pier and Newport is by steamer from Newport to 
Wickford, and thence, over the Shore Line Railroad to Kingston 
Junction as above. This way affords transit several times daily. 




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MATTHEWSON HOUSE. 



The Matthewson House, located near Point Judith Light House, 
within ive minutes' walk of the Beach, has large airy rooms, 
most of them commanding views of the sea, unsurpassed by any 
hotel at the Pier. Not unfrequently one hundred vessels can be 

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. M)5e island. 

counted in full view, sailing in differed fe directions. This house 
is provided with all the conveniences of a first-class sea -side hotel. 
The immediate proximity of the surf renders access to it the easi- 
est possible, while the liberal piazzas and pleasure grounds are 
always cool and restful places for relaxation or amusement. No 
mosquitoes ever annoy guests here. The hearty attention of the 
proprietors and all their subordinates is given to the comfort and 
care of all who become their guests, and in promoting the spirit 
of good-fellowship among them, which, more than the most elegant 
appointments, makes the charm of a residence at the sea-side. 



MOUNT HOPE HOUSE. 

The Mount Hope House offers unusual inducements to the 
pleasure or health seeker. Situated on Ocean Avenue, a few 
rods from the shore and only three minutes' walk from the depot ; 
its rooms large and airy, and comfortably fitted up , its employees 
polite and attentive, it aims to become a pleasant and home-like 
resting-place for its guests. Its ample piazzas afford guests soft, 
cool, bracing air and picturesque views. The surf is nearly always 

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WATCH HILL, Westerly, Washington Co., R. I. 

Hotels — Atlantic, Larkin, Ocean, Plympton, Watch Hill, Bay 

View, Dickens, Narragansett. 

This favorite resort owes its popularity to the magnificent ocean 
view which is obtained from the bluffs on which the hotels stand ; 
to the variety of its bathing facilities, and to the excellent fishing 
and sailing which its neighboring waters afford. Aside from the 
hotels, Watch Hill as a village has no importance whatever ; the 
few houses belonging to permanent residents having been built 
simply as accessories to the hotels. The Hill itself is a high sandy 
bluff, or series of bluffs, forming the western extremity of Narra- 
gansett Beach, which, broken only by inlets, stretches twenty 
miles eastward to Point Judith. In early times, the highest bluff 
was used as a look-out for whales ; and earlier still, it is said that 
the Indians maintained a watch there to guard against the fierce 
and warlike Montauks of Long Island, who would occasionally 
make a predatory expedition to the mainland in their canoes. 
The formation of the coast at this point is very peculiar. A long 
and narrow sand-spit makes out to the westward, and bending at 
a right angle incloses a broad and shallow inner bay whose waters 
are as quiet and safe (comparatively speaking) as a mill-pond. 
Outside of this, and yet partially protected from the ocean by 
Watch Hill Point, is the beach generally used for bathing. Here 
are bathing-houses and the usual accessories. The surf on this 
beach is always moderate. The writer has bathed there in safety 
when a southwester was hurling seas heavy enough to swamp a 
frigate upon the outer beach, within five minutes' walk. Last of 
all is this outer beach, which, owing to the undertow, is considered 
dangerous for bathers. It is, however, unsurpassed as a prom- 
enade, and when viewed from the bluff, presents a scene which 
will not be readily forgotten. Watch Hill Point is a collection of 
boulders connected with the mainland by a low neck, over which 
the waves often break. On the extremity of this point is a light- 
house, and over the boulders the surf rushes in the wildest manner, 
affording a pleasant vaiiety when one tires of the regular advance 

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and retreat of the waves on the level sands. Watch Hill is 
reached by a steamboat which makes several trips a-day to and 
from Stonington, Connecticut, or by sail-boat from the same 
place. For further railroad and steamboat accommodations, see 
Stonington. There is also daily communication with New Lon- 
don and Norwich by steamer. 

BLOCK ISLAND, Newport Co., R. I. 

Block Island will probably never be a very fashionable resort, 
but for those who love the ocean for its own sake it possesses 
great attractions. The island was discovered by Verazzano, the 
Florentine navigator, in 1524, and was named Claudia in honor 
of the Queen Dowager of France. As no white man came near it 
for a hundred years, however, this name was forgotten, and when 
the Dutch Admiral Block visited it in 1614 he had no difficulty in 
affixing to it his own name. The island is nine miles long and 
four wide, the nearest land being Montauk Point, ten miles to the 
westward, and Point Judith, about the same distance north. The 
surface of the island is very irregular, and is intersected by queer 
rambling roads, going through everybody's back-yard, and afford- 
ing charming horse-back rides, though rather rough for vehicles. 
The South Cliff is well worth a visit, its nearly vertical clay walls 
looking down on a stony beach on which the Atlantic breaks with 
all its power. Beacon Hill, 300 feet high, affords a magnificent 
ocean view. The surf -bathing is all that can be desired, and in 
the case of ladies, rather more. The beach, however, is perfectly 
safe, and when the surf is heaviest, the worst that it will do is to 
knock you over and roll you up on the sand. 

The Ocean View Hotel, the Spring House, and the Mitchell 
House, are the only hotels. See circular. The blue-fishing at 
Block Island is perhaps as fine as anywhere on the coast : the fish 
ranging uncommonly large, and being as " game "as a brook 
trout. The act of pulling in a blue-fish off Block Island is apt to 
leave its impress on the fingers as well as on the memory. Fine 
cod and pollock are caught on the " banks " to seaward. Do not 
fail to read Whittier's poem, 7' he Palatine, and, if you have a 
chance, talk privately with some old islander about the "fire 
ship." The steamer Canonicus leaves Providence for the island 

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at 9 A M., Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, touching at New« 
port. The Ella leaves Norwich, Ct., on Wednesday, at 8 A. M., 
at New London (9.30) and Stonington (10.30). The mail boat, 
(a sailing vessel) leaves Newport Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sat 
urdays, at 8 A. M. , but is somewhat irregular. 

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The Connecticut coast forms the northern limit of Long Island 
Sound, and is quite different in character from the shore opposite. 
It is, to a great extent, rocky, though not, as a general rule, 
bold. The granite ledges often slope gradually enough into the 
water to afford good bathing-places in calm weather, and a 
peculiarity of the Connecticut watering-places is, that one can 
take " headers " off the rocks without fear of being dashed back 
against them by the force of the waves. It is, however advisable 
to be sure that there is sufficient depth before taking the plunge. 
Surf-bathing is not to be had on the Connecticut coast, for 
although some hotel proprietors profess to consider the short seas 
which dance in from the Sound as " surf," no one who has bathed 
on an ocean beach will for an instant admit the justice of the 
title. Still-bathing, however, is very good in its way, and is 
often preferred by ladies and invalids to the heavier surges which 
break in thunder at Newport and Long Branch. The fishing 
along this shore is everywhere good, all the species of fish which 
frequent the shoal waters of the North Atlantic being taken in 
abundance from the rocks or along the sunken reefs. The 
temperature during summer is cool, and the air invigorating, 
though not so " strong " as on the outer coast. Boarders are re- 
ceived during summer at almost all the farm-houses near the 
Sound, and as a rule, the housekeeping is neat, the table plain, 
and comfort rather than luxury the rule of life. 

GREENWICH, Fairfield Co., Conn., 
31 miles from N. Y. Hotels — Morton House, Lennox House. 

This is the westernmost town in Connecticut. The village is 
notable for the unusual number of fine residences which it con- 
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three large churches, Congregational and Episcopal, and many 
charming views of the Sound are to be obtained in the vicinity. 

The town was settled in 1640, under the Dutch Government at 
New Amsterdam. Six years later a great battle came off near 
Horse Neck, between the Dutch and Indians, the latter being de- 
feated with great loss. Until 1664, the town was under the con- 
trol of the Dutch ; but after sundry quarrels, was finally surren- 
dered to Connecticut. The scene of General Putnam's exploit in 
riding down the hill at Horse Neck, is not far from the railroad 
station. At that time (1779) a series of stone steps existed, down 
which Putnam, having been worsted in a skirmish by Tryon's 
dragoons, rode at full speed, and escaped through a shower of 
bullets. Greenwich is reached from New York by the New York 
and New Haven Railroad (station, Fourth Avenue and Forty- 
second Street), or by steamer P. C. Shultz, from Pier 7, East 
River, at 2.50 P.M. 

The Morton House is the building originally erected by the 
Americus Club, a political organization which passed out of 
existence with the famous Tammany Ring. 

STAMFORD, Fairfield Co., Conn. 

37 miles from New York. Hotels — Stamford House, Union 
House, Hamilton House, Arlington House. 

Stamford, one of the prettiest villages on the Connecticut 
coast, is about half a mile north of the railroad, and is finely laid 
out with wide, shady streets, drives, and parks. Quite a number 
of wealthy New York merchants reside here, and several beauti- 
ful country-seats testify to the taste of its inhabitants. It has 
gained considerable popularity as a resort of late years, but 
mostly among persons who own or hire houses in or near the vil- 
lage. The Railroad restaurant here has a great reputation, and 
a rush of hungry passengers always takes place when the trains 
stop, as all of them are obliged to do, for wood and water. A 
railroad runs to New Canaan, a few miles north. The New York 
and New Haven Railroad connects the village with other roads 
east and west, and there is a daily boat to New York, landing at 
Pier No 27, East River, whence it starts at 2.50 P.M. Shippan 
Point, some 2 miles from the station, has a good hotel, the Ocean 



CONNECTICUT. 

House ; and on Noroton Hill, not far distant, is the Hamilton 
House. 

NOR WALK, Fairfield Co., Conn. 
45 miles from New York. Hotels — Alliss House, Lucas Hotel. 

Norwalk River forms a harbor available for vessels of light 
draught, which ascend to the main village, a mile and a half 
from the railway. Many New Yorkers reside here during the 
summer. The drives in the vicinity are charming in variety and 
beauty. Norwalk oysters are well known wherever oysters can be 
transported. Several hundred men are employed in this business. 
Just east of the station is the drawbridge, which was the scene 
of a terrible accident years ago, which caused the enactment 
of a law requiring all trains to come to a full stop before 
crossing a drawbridge. The Danbury and Norwalk Railroad 
connects here with the New York and New Haven line, whose 
frequent trains keep up a constant communication east and west. 

SOTJTHPORT, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Conn- 
52 miles from New York. 

This beautiful village is situated in the southwest corner of 
Fairfield township, between the railway and the Sound. It con- 
tains three churches, two banks, an academy, and a very fine 
building for a public high school. It has a good harbor for small 
vessels, and its tonnage, a few years ago, was larger, in propor- 
tion to its size, than that of any other port in the United States. 
Within the borough limits is a portion of the " Pequot Swamp," 
where the Pequods made their last stand, in 1637, when they 
were exterminated by the whites under Captain Mason. 

FAIRFIELD, Fairfield Co., Conn. 
54 miles from New York. Hotels — Fairfield House. 

Contrary to the usual practice in American towns, the residents 
of Fairfield glory that there are no factories of any kind within 
the limits of the village, and that there is hardly any business 
carried on there. The town is, in fact, made up of handsome 
houses, owned and occupied by retired merchants, or by New 
Yorkers still engaged in business in the city. The village is built 
on a fertile plain east of the railway, about half a mile from the 
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Sound. The principal street is quite broad, running nearly par> 
allel with the railway, and is built up with handsome and 
commodious residences, in the midst of which stands a fine 
Consrrearational church. Of course ocean surf is not to be 
enjoyed here ; but the bathing is nevertheless good. The 
common kinds of salt-water fish are to be caught, and there 
is opportunity to fish in fresh water, without, however, much 
chance for sport. Fairfield is one of the oldest towns in 
Connecticnt. It was founded in 1639 by a company from the 
west of England. The village was burnt July 7, 1779, by 
General Tryon, who sailed the day before from New Haven. 
Two hundred houses were on fire at once; and during the 
conflagration a terrific thunder-storm arose, producing a scene 
of terrible grandeur. North of the village, near the middle of 
the township, is "Greenfield Hill," the scene of President 
Dwight's poem of that name. 

Black Bock Village is a short distance to the eastward, on a har- 
bor which, next to that of New London, is the best on the Con- 
necticut coast. The whole vicinity is a gently rolling country, 
penetrated in every direction by roads, some of which pass 
through scenes of great beauty. The connections are by the New 
York and New Haven Railroad. 

BRIDGEPORT, Fairfield Co., Conn. 

59£ miles from New York. Hotels — Sterling House and Atlan- 
tic Hotel. 

Bridgeport is to be mentioned incidentally here as a place of 
commercial importance, and not by any means as a resort. It is 
at the mouth of the Pequonnock River, and is, perhaps, best 
known through its extensive manufactories of sewing-machines 
and fire-arms. Moreover, it was for many years the residence 
of that remarkable, in some respects exemplary, individual, 
Phineas T. Barnum, and was the birthplace of his famous 
■protege, " Tom Thumb." It is the southern terminus of the 
Housatonic and Naugatuck Railroads, is the principal station on 
the railroad between New York and New Haven, and is in daily 
communication with the former place by means of a line of 

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boats landing" at Pier 35, East River, and running daily, Sundays 
excepted. 

WESTPORT, Fairfield Co., Conn. 

48 miles from New York. 

The village is near the mouth of the Saugatuck River, on both 
banks of which it is built. There are several boarding-houses 
and one or two small hotels in the town. 

STRATFORD, Fairfield Co., Conn. 

62 miles from New York. 

The principal street of this pleasant village, extending from 
north to south, is ornamented with fine shade -trees. General 
Wooster, of revolutionary fame, was a native of this town . The 
entire township is quite level, but the shore is pleasantly diversi- 
fied. There are several houses where board may be obtained, but 
no large hotels. 



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MILFORD, New Haven Co., Conn. 
67 miles from New York. 

A village of considerable importance, situated at the mouth of 
the Wopowang River, which furnishes some water-power. The 
town is generally level. The harbor is a good one, admitting 
vessels of 200 tons. Serpentine marble is found in the town. 
Many of the residences are large and elegant, and the fine elms 
which line the principal streets give the place a pleasant and 
rural aspect. Near the railway station is a cemetery, in the 
southwest corner of which is a brown-stone monument thirty 
feet in height, erected to the memory of soldiers who died 
here during the revolutionary war from hardships and cruel 
treatment in the British prison-ships at New York. Hundreds 
of them were landed here in a sick and dying condition, and 
many of them, dying within a short time, were buried here. 
Charles Island is an Island only at high tide, for a beach 
practicable for carriages connects it at low water with the main- 
land. There is a hotel on the island, and the black -fishing from 
the rocks is remarkably good. The island is quite small, but is 
a very pleasant place of resort. 

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NEW HAVEN, New Haven Co., Conn. 

76 miles from New York. Hotels — New Haven, House, Tontine^ 

Elliot and Tremont. 

The "City of Elms," although we cannot conscientiously 
recommend it as a watering-place, should be visited by all who 
are interested in seeing the nearest approach to a" University 
town " which America can boast. The casual visitor cannot fail 
to enjoy the beautiful elm-embowered avenues and streets, and 
the comfortable and elegant private residences, which make it at 
once rustic and urban. The crowning glory of New Haven, how- 
ever, consists in its numerous and excellent educational institu- 
tions, first among which is Yale College, venerable with years, 
and known and honored throughout the world. Though younger 
than Harvard by a few years, and not as richly endowed, yet in 
the thoroughness and breadth of its classical and scientific cul- 
ture it is held in the highest estimation. It is properly a univer- 
sity, having connected with it excellent schools for the study of 
the different professions. The vicinity of the city is intersected 
by many charming drives, among which the most agreeable are 
perhaps those to East and West Rocks. Savin Rock is a popular 
resort for parties from New Haven, and its popularity somewhat 
detracts from its desirability as a permanent sojourning place. 
It is beautified by a shady grove, and the hotel is surrounded 
by pleasant walks along the beach or among the low wooded hills 
which overhang the shore. The Savin Rock House is a short dis- 
tance from the western limit of New Haven harbor. Fair Haven, 
famous for the number of oysters which are annually opened and 
put in kegs for market, is on the Quinnipiac River, two miles 
east of New Haven. Fair Haveners make it their boast that the 
town contains the champion oyster-openers of the Union, both 
male and female. 

EAST HAVEN, New Haven Co., Conn. 

81 miles from New York. 

This township extends along the eastern shore of New Haven 
harbor, of which and of the Sound its heights command fine 
views. At Morris Cove, three miles from New Haven, is a hotel 
and one or two boarding-houses. There is another hotel, on the 

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point near the light-house. Good bathing beaches are to be found 
all along this coast, and black-fish, porgies, flounders, and the 
like may be caught from the rocks in abundance. 

BRANFORD, New Haven Co., Conn. 

84 miles from New York. 

Branford Point, Double Beach, Indian Neck, and the Thimble 
Islands, are the watering-places in this vicinity. The fi?'st named 
has a good hotel situated on a sheltered harbor, where the 
bathing, fishing, and boating are good, and all the surroundings 
agreeable. Double Beach and Indian Neck are also quiet retreats, 
where the ladies need not dress more than twice a day, and where 
gentlemen can find all that pure air and freedom from annoyance 
can give. All these places are reached by stages from Branford, 
station on the Shore Line Railroad. The Thimbles are a beauti- 
ful group of rocky and picturesque islands, forming one of the at- 
tractions of the vicinity. A house stands on the largest of the 
islands, which offers rather uncertain accommodations during the 
summer. Kidd's Island, one of this group, has been pretty 
thoroughly searched for buried treasure, but nothing has ever 
been found. On another island is a rock in which a deep oblong 
hollow has been worn or cut, and is known as the " Devil's Punch 
Bowl." Altogether the Thimbles form a fascinating place to 
spend a day or two, and in the fall the neighboring waters are 
literally black with ducks, affording excellent sport for a practised 
marksman. 

GUILFORD, New Haven Co., Conn. 
92 miles from New York. Hotel — Guilford Point House. 

There are few pleasanter towns on Long Island Sound than 
Guilford. From the station one can see but little of the village, 
and as the Sound, and consequently the sea-side hotels, are at a 
distance, too many visitors to the coast fail to see the quaint old 
place, with its shaded public square, its comfortable roomy old 
houses, its churches, and general air of antiquity. Fitz-Greene 
Halleck, the "pioneer of American poetry," was born here in 
1795, and died here in 1807. Marco Bozzaris is probably the best 
known of his miscellaneous poems. The " Old Stone House, 1 ' as 



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it is called, is believed to be the oldest one in the United States, 
having 1 been erected by the company who first settled the town 
in 1840. It stands but a short distance from the railroad station, 
on the right as you pass up to the village. This house was used 
as a fort for some time to defend the inhabitants from the hos- 
tile Indians. Within its walls the first marriage which took place 
in this town was solemnized, and in contrast with the extrava- 
gance of the present day, tradition hath it that the wedding-feast 
consisted of pork and beans. Only a very few buildings in the 
country can outrank it in age, and to all appearances it will last a 
century or so longer. The Pavilion Hotel, at Guilford Point, is 
an unpretending yet very popular watering-place. The house 
stands quite near the shore, upon a slight elevation, and car- 
riages are always waiting at the station to convey passengers 
thither during the summer months. It particularly excels in the 
excellence of its table. First-class fishing and bathing facilities 
are afforded, and the bathing-houses and beach are near at hand. 
The charges are $3 per day. Nearly all the families living near 
the shore open their houses for boarders during the summer 
months, at lower rates than those which are charged at the hotels. 
Sachem's Head, a promontory three miles southwest of Guilford, 
is an admirable site for a hotel, but it is at present vacant; the 
fine house, which formerly attracted many guests, having been 
burned. The "Head" is, however, a pleasant place to visit, 
has a good beach for bathing, and heavy black-fish about its wave- 
worn rocks. Seward Cottage is a unique and cozy little private 
villa, picturesquely situated on the knoll overlooking the Sound. 
The Thimble Islands are within easy rowing distance of this 
place, and Falkner's Island, with its satellite, Gull Island, are 
visible in mid-Sound, and form an objective point for sailing 
parties. 

CLINTON, Middlesex Co., Conn. 
99 miles from New York. Hotels — Bacon House, Clinton House. 

The village is divided in two parts by the Indian River, which 
here falls into the Sound, forming a harbor deep enough to admit 
ordinary coasters. Its streets are well shaded ; its three churches, 
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and it has a school-house built by Charles Morgan, of New Yorkj 
and named after him, which is large enough to accommodate at 
one and the same time all the youth of Clinton, present and pro- 
spective. Of the two hotels, the Bacon House is the largest and 
most desirably situated. It commands a good lookout over the 
Sound, can lodge conveniently a hundred guests, and is well kept, 
both as to table and general management. Fairy Dell is to be 
visited as soon as a desire for inland scenery is perceived. It is 
only two miles distant, so that either riding or walking are in 
order, and however it is reached the tourist will be well repaid 
for his trouble by the beauties which an exploration of its cool 
recesses will reveal. Pine Orchard, one mile and a half from the 
village, is the rendezvous for picnic parties from all over the back 
country, and a very pleasant spot it is, consisting of a considera- 
ble bluff overlooking the Sound and shaded by a grove of pines. 
Nearer the village, indeed just off the harbor mouth, is Sandy 
Point, which is not a point, but a cedar-covered island, where- 
unto chowder-parties do numerously resort, and whither Clinto- 
nians and sojourners within their borders are accustomed to re- 
pair on pleasant summer evenings. Clinton is on the Shore Line 
Railroad, and is easily reached from New Haven or New London, 
where connections are made with other railroads, or with New 
York steamboats. 

SAYBROOK, Middlesex Co., Conn., 
100 miles from New York. Hotel — New Saybrook House. 

The combined names of the English noblemen, Lords Say and 
Brooke, were given to the town soon after a royal patent to this 
territory was granted to them and their heirs forever by the Earl 
of Warwick. The village is built along the first elevated land to 
the west of the Connecticut River, which here falls into the Sound. 
The population is largely made up of retired merchants and sea- 
captains, whose comfortable houses line the shaded street. Navi- 
gation of the river is somewhat impeded by a bar at the mouth, 
which, at the highest tides, is covered by little more than twelve 
feet of water. The remains of a fort, built long ago to command 
the mouth of the river to protect the town from hostile Indians, 
are to be seen near Saybrook Point, a narrow peninsula stretching 

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out into the Sound. Not far from the fort is the tomb of Lady 
Fenwick, the daughter of Sir Edward Apsley, of England, and 
wife of Col. Fenwick, who may be considered the founder of the 
colony. The date of her death is unknown, as the tomb very 
singularly bears no inscription ; but the fact that she left a luxu- 
rious English home to share with her husband the perils of the 
New World, has always lent a romantic interest to her history. 
Col. Fenwick, who returned to England after his wife's death, 
was one of the judges at the trial of Charles I. Yale College was 
established at Saybrook, in 1700. A large building, one story 
high and eighty feet long, was erected. Fifteen commencements 
were held here, when, after an exciting contest, it was removed 
to New Haven. In 1708 the famous Saybrook Platform was 
adopted, for the government of the churches, by the ecclesiasti- 
cal dignitaries who had assembled to attend the annual com- 
mencement. An association, known as the " New Saybrook Com- 
pany," has been formed and incorporated under the laws of Con- 
necticut, with a view to purchasing a tract of land a little west of 
the mouth of the river, laying it out in drives and walks, and 
erecting thereon a large hotel and various cottages. Most of the 
stockholders are residents of Hartford or of the river towns, and 
the design is to provide a desirable place of sea-side resort within 
easy reach. Two or three miles from its mouth the Connecticut 
River becomes highly picturesque, winding for many miles 
between beautiful wooded hills and rocky shores, varied now and 
then by meadows of the richest verdure. The railway connec- 
tions are via the Shore Line and Connecticut Valley roads. The 
New York and Hartford boats touch regularly at Saybrook, though 
at rather inconvenient hours for pleasure travel ; and the steamer 
Sunshine, running from Hartford to New London and the eastern 
portion of Long Island, makes tri-weekly trips. 

EAST LYME, New London Co., Conn. 

119 miles from New York. 

This pretty and thriving village, generally known as Niantic, is 
delightfully situated, in full view of the Sound, on Niantic Bay, 
at the mouth of Nehantic (or Niantic) River. A long, narrow 
peninsula, upon which the railroad is constructed, lies between 

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the bay and the Sound, which are united by a narrow channel, 
spanned by the railroad bridge. It is a popular place of summer 
sea-side resort for fishing-, bathing-, etc., two hotels and several 
boarding-houses affording the desired accommodations. About 
two miles south of the village is Black Point, projecting into 
Long Island Sound. The farms here are extremely productive 
and valuable, owing to the fertilizing qualities of the sea-weed 
thrown up by the waves of the Sound. The Shore Line Railroad 
affords the only regular means of connection with the great 
travelled routes. 

NEW LONDON, New London Co., Conn. 

126 miles from New York. From Boston 106. Hotels— Crocker 

House and Peg not House. 

The vicinity of New London offers many attractions to stran- 
gers, and the city itself is a very delightful place to live in. 
Before describing the neighboring resorts, we say in regard to 
the city, that its pleasantest streets are on the heights, where 
many handsome residences are built, some of them overlooking 
the magnificent harbor. When the whale-fishery was in its glory, 
New London was a busy place ; but now the arrival or departure 
of a square-rigged ship stirs 'long shore society to its very founda- 
tions. The harbor is one of the finest on the Atlantic coast, ad- 
mitting vessels of the heaviest tonnage, seldom or never freezing, 
and containing excellent anchorage ground. It is defended by 
Forts Trumbull andGriswold, the former being a regular fortifica- 
tion, with bastions and casemates, and the latter, on the east 
side of the harbor, a simple battery. New London was settled in 
1644 by John Winthrop, son of Governor Winthrop, of Massachu- 
setts, and incorporated in 1784. Its early name was Pequot, after a 
large and powerful tribe of Indians that originally held this terri- 
tory. Sassacus, a great sachem of this tribe, figured in this vicin- 
ity, and made walking oat alone a rather dangerous amusement 
during the early days of the settlement. In 1781, a large part of 
the town was burned by the British, under Benedict Arnold, and 
the State devoted certain western reserve lands to the relief of the 
houseless inhabitants. The Crocker House is one of the finest 
hotels in Connecticut. It is situated on State Street, opposite 
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the United States Custom House and Post-Office, in the centre of 
the city. The sleeping-rooms are all large, pleasant, and well 
furnished with spring beds, wardrobes, etc., and are kept clean 
and neat. The dining-room is spacious, and the cuisine is ex- 
cellent. Around New London are delightful drives, and the views 
of the city, harbor and Long Island Sound, and the Thames 
River, are charmingly beautiful. To summer boarders, who wish 
the accommodation of a first-class modern metropolitan hotel, 
and yet to be near the shore, the Crocker House offers unusual 




CROCKER HOUSE. 

attractions. The Pequot House, situated on the point which 
forms the western side of the harbor, enjoys a reputation of long 
standing as one of the most fashionable hotels outside of New- 
port or Long Branch. With its cottages it can accommodate some 
500 persons, and there is no denying that its appointments are all 
« first class," and are to be paid for as such. The bathing beach 
is not of interminable extent, nor is the surf, in ordinary weath- 
er, to be compared with that of ocean beaches ; but the sand is 
fine and white, the slope is gradual, and the water pure. Excel- 

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lent fishing is to be found in the adjacent waters, and sailing 
parties are often made up for the exciting sport of sharking out 
toward the ocean. New London is the terminus of the New Lon- 
don Northern Railroad, connecting with the inland routes be- 
tween New York and Boston. IVie Shore Line and the New Lon- 
don, Providence and Stonington Railroads are here joined by a 
car-transporting ferry-boat crossing the Thames River. There is 
also a daily line of steamboats to New York. 

GKOTON- 

126 miles from New York. 

The village is a small one, in the neighborhood of the railroad 
station, opposite New London. It is pleasantly situated, and 
board can be procured in the vicinity. Good fishing for black-fish 
porgies, etc., is to be had off the rocks close to the house, and 
sailing-boats are at hand for more extended excursions. The 
Ocean House is most easily reached by sail or row boat from New 
London, although a carriage- ride of three miles or so will bring 
one to the hotel. On the heights, just above Groton village, is a 
granite monument erected under the patronage of the State — 
that is to say, a lottery was granted to raise money for the pur- 
pose — in memory of the Fort Griswold massacre, September 6th, 
1781. This occurred on the same day which witnessed the burn- 
ing of New London by Arnold. The remains of the fort are still 

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to be seen near the monument. Here Col. William Ledyard, a 
brother of the distinguished traveller John Ledyard, with 150 
men, mostly farmers and artisans, made a gallant stand against 
eight hundred British troops under Lieut. -Col. Eyre. After 
losing heavily in officers and men the assailants succeeded, by 
desperate fighting, in gaining the interior of the fort. A certain 
Captain Bloomfield was in command of the British, Col. Eyre and 
his other superiors having fallen in the assault. As he entered 
he asked, " Who commands this fort ? " Col. Ledyard advanced 
and saluting him with his sword, replied, ' ' I did, but you do now," 
at the same time tendering his sword. Captain Bloomfield seized 
the proffered weapon, and instantly thrust it through Col. Led- 
yard's body, killing him on the spot. The coat and vest which 
Col. Ledyard had on at the time may be seen at the Hartford 

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Athengeum. This atrocious act was followed by an indiscrim- 
inate massacre of the garrison. It is satisfactory to record that 
the British, on their return to New York, reported a loss of 
something like 500 men. 

MYSTIC, Stonington, New London Co., Conn. 
134: miles from New York. Hotel — Hoxie House. 

No town, it is said, between New York and Boston has built so 
many sea-going craft of all kinds as Mystic, and naturally with 
the decline of the ship-building interest it has lost much of its 
activity. It stands on both banks of Mystic River, a deep stream 
opening into the Sound a mile or so below the town. The 
western shore of the river rises abruptly from the water in a 
rocky bluff which is covered with neat and attractive houses. 
The Hoxie House is a pleasant place at which to stay. The 
farm-houses near the coast in the vicinity receive boarders in the 
summer. Near the village, in May, 1637, the war like Pequots 
received their first serious chastisement at the hands of the 
Puritans, under Captain John Mason, who, two months later, ex- 
terminated the remainder of the tribe at Southport. The fight 
at Mystic must, according to Captain Mason's report, have been 
a most horrible affair. . Some three hundred savages were burned 
in the fort, and, in the words of the chronicler, " others of the 
stoutest issued forth, as we did guess, to the number of forty, 
who perished by the sword." Mystic Island, just off the mouth of 
the river, has a good hotel, and is a healthful resort for those who 
enjoy complete quiet and are not dependent upon the convention- 
alities of life for enjoyment. Fisher's Island, about five miles 
from the mainland, belongs to New York State, being a part of 
the town of Southold, Long Island. It has borne its name of 
Fisher's, or " Vicher's " Island, ever since the Dutch Admiral 
Block discovered it and made note thereof in his log-book, in 
1614. It is nearly bare of trees, but is of value as grazing land, 
to which it is chiefly devoted. One hotel stands on the island, and 
is the only house which is available as a sojourning place for 
travellers. Its attractions are found in the immunity from the 
sights and sounds of the every-day world, and in the capital fish- 

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ing and shooting which may be found along its desolate shores 
It is most easily reached by sail-boat. 

STONINGTON, New London Co., Conn. 

138 miles from New York. From Boston 94. 

Hotel — Wadawannuck House. 

There is a peculiar air of well-to-do repose about any town 
which grew into importance under the auspices of whaling and 
the like. New London has it to some extent, and Stonington has 
it in a chronic form. Almost every one lives in a comfortable 
house, originally built, in nine cases out of ten, by a retired sea- 
captain ; in nearly every parlor are carved ornaments brought from 
the ends of the earth, and still diffusing odors of sandalwood and 
of the Spice Islands ; every elderly man lurches as he walks, is 
called " Captain," and can tell you, without looking, which way 
the wind is at any hour of the day or night. Half a century ago 
the town monopolized the seal-trade, vessels of forty or fifty tons 
burden going all over the ocean, while its whaling tonnage was 
second only to that of Newport. In the days of its prosperity the 
stone breakwater, which still protects the harbor, was constructed 
by the United States Government. Its chief use now is to serve 
as a promenade and to shelter casual yachts and coasters. The 
town was founded in 1GG0, and had an uneventful and peaceful 
career until August 9th, 181-2, when it was bombarded by the 
squadron of Sir Thomas Hardy, which was, however, driven off by 
the plucky resistance of the inhabitants. On a granite post in the 
principal street an unexploded bomb-shell may be seen, bearing an 
inscription to the effect that it was thrown into the town from Her 
Britannic Majesty's bomb-ship Terror, during the attack. The 
Wadawannuck is a first-class house with spacious accommodations 
for some 200 guests. It is designed with especial reference to 
coolness, is surrounded by spacious grounds, and is altogether a 
pleasant place to stay, although it can only claim by courtesy that 
it is near the water. Its chief aquatic advantages are, that it is 
admirably situated for the convenience of yachtsmen, whose craft 
are often anchored in the harbor, where are also boats suited for 
fishing and sailing, both of which sports in all their multifarious 

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branches can be pursued most successfully in the neighboring 
waters. Steamers to New York, Watch Hill, New London, and 
the neighboring landings and railroads to Boston, Providence, and 
New York, furnish ample and constant means of communication 
in all directions. 

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NEW LONDON, CONN., 
D. KELLOGG, Proprietor, 

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Street, opposite the United States Custom House and Post Office, 
in the centre of the city. The sleeping-rooms are all large, pleas- 
ant, and well furnished with spring beds, wardrobes, etc. , and are 
kept clean and neat. The dining-room is spacious, and the 
cuisine is excellent. Around New London are delightful drives, 
and the views of the City, Harbor and Long Island Sound, and the 
Thames River, are charmingly beautiful. To Summer Boarders 
who wish the accommodation of a first-class modern metropolitan 
hotel, and yet to be near the shore, the Ckocker House offers 
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The first city of the Western Hemisphere in population, wealth, 
and commerce, is situated on Manhattan Island, fifteen miles in 
length, and from one to two miles in breadth. On the west is 
the Hudson River (known in the neighborhood of the city as 
the '' North River"), and on the east the East River, which latter 
is in fact a strait connecting the Bay with Long Island Sound. 
The northern boundary of the island is formed by the Harlem 
River and Spuyten Duy vil Creek, two names for different portions 
of the same narrow estuary which unites the Hudson with the 
East River. At the southern extremity of Manhattan Island is 
the Bay of New York, universally acknowledged to be one of the 
finest harbors in the world. Standing on the Battery and looking 
southeast, the view is one of exceeding beauty, as well as of un- 
surpassed bustle and activity. Directly in front of the spectator, 
and about two -thirds of a mile from the city, is Governor's Island, 
a nearly circular piece of land, about half a mile in diameter, and 
containing seventy-two acres of land. It belongs to the Federal 
Government, and is used as a military stition. To the south- 
west, and about one mile and a half from the Battery, are Ellis 
and Bedloe's Islands, both of which were formerly the property 
of the Government, and strongly fortified. Bedloe's Island was 
given to the city in 1870 for the site of a colossal statue of Liberty 
to be presented by the people of France. Five and a half miles 
southward is the beautiful Staten Island, dotted from end to end 
with elegant residences and tasteful grounds and gardens. Look- 
ing eastward, the spectator beholds the city of Brooklyn, sitting 
proudly on its far-famed heights, and westward the Jersey shore, 
with its various towns and cities. It is not, however, with such 
a city as New York that we are now especially concerned, for al- 

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though it is the most populous, if not the most popular, of all 
places on the Atlantic coast, even during the dog-days, the utmost 
stretch of imagination fails to justify us in classing it as a " sea- 
side resort." 

The four distinct lines of sea-coast, radiating from Manhattan 
Island as a centre, give New York advantages, in the way of sea- 
side resorts near at hand, such as no other city of her size in 
Christendom can claim. The coast-lines referred to are formed 
by the New Jersey shore, trending to the southward, and charac- 
terized by long and smooth stretches of sandy beach ; by the 
north and south shores of Long Island, the former rugged and 
hilly, the latter for the most part flat ; and by the Connecticut 
shore, which is diversified by an endless variety of inlets, promon- 
tories, and islands. These three last-mentioned coast-lines follow 
a general direction a little to the north of east. We have now to 
consider only that part of this complicated water-front which be- 
longs to the Empire State. Descriptions of the Connecticut and 
New Jersey shores will be found in their respective chapters. 



STATEN ISLAND, 

with its villa-crowned hills and shady groves, may be seen from 
almost any elevation within a dozen miles. It forms a part of 
the western shore of New York Bay, being separated from the 
mainland of New Jersey only by the narrow Kill von Kull, a 
winding and often beautiful estuary, deep enough to afford free 
navigation between New York, Newark, and Raritan Bays. There 
are several good hotels on the island, among which are the St. 
Mark's, The Pavilion, and Belmont Hotel at Brighton. Elm Park, 
on the New Jersey side, is also a popular resort. Although at 
the sea-side, no part of the island can be classed with the great 
watering-places as a "resort," owing, perhaps, to its nearness to 
the city. Its drives are uncommonly fine, and the superb views 
of the bay and ocean which can be obtained from the heights, 
render a sojourn among its picturesque hills and pleasant coun- 
try-seats eminently enjoyable. The island is reached from New 
York by three lines of ferry-boats, namely : the Staten Island Rail- 
road Ferry and the Staten Island Nortli Shore Ferry, leaving 

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pier IE. R., at alternate half hours for the landings on the 
North and Bay Shores. The people's North Shore Ferry also runs 
to the North Shore landings from pier 19 N. R., making almost 
hourly trips. The Stat en Island Railroad, thirteen miles in 
length, runs from Vanderbilt's Landing to Tottenville, stopping at 
sundry intermediate stations, and a line of horse-cars, starting 
from the same landing, follows the shores of the Kills for several 
miles. Visitors desiring simply to drive over the island, visiting 
Sailors' 1 Snug Harbor, at New Brighton, Silver Lake, the forts, or 
any other points of interest, can readily procure vehicles at any 
of the hotels named, or at the stables near any of the landings. 



LONG ISLAND. 



Were it not for Long Island, the sea-coast of the Empire State 
would be limited to the paltry forty miles, more or less, which 
lie between the State lines of Connecticut and New Jersey. 
This island, however, with its outer and inner beaches, gives it a 
coast of some hundreds of miles, which extent is indefinitely 
increased, if we measure the countless inlets and bays which lend 
variety to its shores. Although so near to the principal city of 
the" New World, and withal so important to its welfare in many 
respects, Long Island, or, as the Indians called it, ' l Sewanhacka " 
(the Island of Shells), was comparatively a terra incognita to New 
Yorkers and the rest of the world until railroads began to develop 
its resources as an agricultural country, its advantages as a site 
for innumerable homesteads, and its great attractions in the way 
of sea-side resorts. The Long Island Railroad is one of the old- 
est roads in the country, and now embraces, either as owner or 
lessee, nearly the whole railway system of the island, including 
branches on the north side as far as Port Jefferson, and on the 
south to Patchogue. These are described in the proper order in 
the following pages, and may be found by reference to the index. 
The western terminus is at Hunter's Point, on the East River, 
opposite New York, and is reached by ferry from the foot of 
Thirty-fourth Street, or from James' Slip, East River, the boats 
running all day at short intervals. The road extends from end to 

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end of the island, keeping, in general, a course nearly equi-distant 
from the coast on 

THE NORTH SHORE. 
The north shore of Long Island differs essentially from the 
south shore, both in its topography and in its vegetation. The 
coast-line is for the most part bold and hilly, though not rocky, 
and the hills are in some cases heavily wooded, while in others 
slides have taken place, exposing the sand, which forms the whole 
island. These sand slopes are a peculiar feature of the coast, 
and seen in contrast with the dark green foliage are by no means 
unpleasant to look upon, however disagreeable they may be to the 
pedestrian. Nearly the whole length of the island is bordered by 
beaches of white sand, which wind in and out of the coves, afford- 
ing in almost all cases excellent opportunities for bathing. For 
fifty miles or thereabout east of New York the north shore is 
almost as much indented by bays and coves as is the coast of Nor- 
way by fiords, and some of these almost land-locked harbors are 
very beautiful. By far the pleasantest way to reach any given 
point east of Port Jefferson is by boat from New York, although 
the quickest way is in many cases by rail. In sailing down the 
East River, it is difficult to determine where suburban villages end 
and the sea-side resorts begin, but probably the most enthusiastic 
admirer of Flushing will not claim for it any degree of popularity 
as a watering-place. We will, therefore, begin with 

COLLEGE POINT, Flushing. Queens Co., N. Y. 
Hotels — Boulevard, Coll. PL Hotel, Coll. Pt. Pavilion, Miner's. 

This is a suburban town in communication with New York, 
by means of near a score of trains daily via the Wood-side 
Branch Railroad. It is on Flushing Bay, and is largely in- 
habited by gontlemen doing business in town. It is an orderly 
aud well -governed place, and contains a number of manufac- 
tories, and is possessed of fine educational establishments. The 
steamer Osseo leaves Pier 16 E. R. daily at 3.45 P.M., touching 
at Grand St., New York. 

WHITESTONE. Flushing. Queans Co., N- Y. 
Hotels— Whitestone House, Meyers', Krebs 1 , Bullus Hotel. 

Beautiful views over the Sound, just where the East River 

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ceases and the Sound begins, pleasant drives over the rolling and 
thickly-wooded hills of the vicinity, and boats of all kinds for 
sailing or rowing, with a large choice in the way of inlets and 
bays wherein to sail or swim, are the chief attractions of White- 
stone. The hotels are good, and there are many boarding- 
houses in and around the village. Along the shore there are 
many pretty residences. Within easy walking distance is 
WilleWs Point, the site of a strong fortification commanding 
one of the principal water approaches to New York. Several 
companies of engineers are usually stationed here. Steamer 
Osseo leaves Pier 16, East River, for Whitestone at 3.45 P.M. 
daily, Sundays excepted, touching at Grand Street going and 
returning. Whitestone is the terminus of the Woodside Branch. 

From Flushing a branch continues to Bay side, Little Neck, and 
Great Neck. This last, the terminus of the road, is a delightful 
place, with a good hotel and many private residences. Beyond, 
and accessible by good roads, are Manhasset, Port Was! ting ton, 
and Sa-ntW Point. Besides the numerous trains, a daily boat, the 
Sewanhaka, leaves Pier 24, E. R., for Great Neck daily at 4 P.M., 
touching at 33d St. 

Creedmoor, the shooting range of the National Rifle Association, 
is a few miles farther east on another branch road passing through 
Flushing. 

THE SOUTH SHOEE OF LONG ISLAND- 

Sand and sea are the rulers of the south shore, the one 
being, under the effects of wind and water, almost as unstable 
as the other. The whole length of this coast is protected by 
a breakwater of sand, which moves slowly but steadily to the 
westward, points making out into bays, and bays eating off 
the ends of points, until some violent gale restores the neces- 
sary equilibrium and opens the channels which the tides and 
currents require. Sometimes new beaches appear well out at sea, 
and these, perhaps, gradually move toward the shore until they 
are added to the mainland. It is a curious and desolate land, 
but it is swept by the purest of ocean breezes, and its hard and 
clean beaches are attractive alike to bathers and to juvenile build- 
ers of sand forts and structures of a similar character. 

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CONEY ISLAND, Gravesend, Kings Co., N. Y. 

This island terminates the long chain of detached sandy beaches 
which stretch along- the entire seaward shore of Long Island, act- 
ing as an effective barrier against the encroachments of the 
Atlantic. Hardly a generation has passed since it was the only 
fashionable sea-side resort in the immediate vicinity of New 
York ; and its very proximity to the city soon made it so popular 
with the multitude, that its more fashionable frequenters depart- 
ed to other and less accessible regions. It has, however, no lack 
of summer visitors of a transient character ; and the scenes on the 
unsurpassed beach on any fine summer afternoon are well worth 
seeing, although the character of the visitors is often such that 
the usual conventionalities of fashionable watering-place life 
are dispensed with. The beach at Coney Island is remarkably 
smooth and hard, and affords an admirable place of recreation for 
thousands who cannot elsewhere enjoy the luxuries of surf-bath- 
ing, or breathe the invigorating ocean air. Hourly communica- 
tion with the city by steamers, and the various lines of horse and 
steam cars. 

KOCKAWAY, Hempstead, Queens Co., N. Y. 

The Rockaway Branch is especially intended for the accommo- 
dation of the countless visitors, who, during the summer, escape 
for a few hours from the city to the magnificent beach at Rock- 
away. Of the intermediate stations,* Woodsburgh (Pavilion Hotel) 
and Ocean Point have some claims to sea-side attractions, but the 
beach has paramount fascinations for the multitude. After a 
period of decadence owing to the freaks of southerly gales, which 
threw up a sand-bank in the offing, Rockaway is now a very popu- 
lar resort, because the southerly gales came back in due time to 
undo the ruin they had wrought ; the bankrupt hotel proprietors 
suddenly found the surf rolling in as of old, within an available 
distance from their doors, and soon re-established their relations 
with the public. The beach is a sandy peninsula, extending 
westward from Far Rockaway, and separating Jamaica Bay from 
the ocean. The hotels at Far Rockaway are the New York, Cole- 
man, Beach, Union, Surf, Atlantic, Grand Hotel, Neptune, and 
a score of others. At Rockaway Beach are the Sea Side Pavilion, 

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Atlantic Park, Elder fs Grove, Sea Side House, Neptune House i 
mainly intended for transient guests. The houses along the 
beach are almost exclusively hotels and their accessories, and are 
visited yearly by thousands, we may say hundreds of thousands 
of bathers and pleasure seekers. The shores of Jamaica Bay are 
too low to afford inviting sites for human habitations ; but the 
grassy shallows and the numerous swampy islands form feeding- 
grounds for quantities of water-fowl, and shooting-grounds for 
hundreds of sportsmen. The railroad affords the quickest and 
most frequent means of access, but numerous boats make daily 
trips to the Jamaica Bay landings at hours which are of necessity 
somewhat irregular owing to the tides. The time-tables are, how- 
ever, easily accessible at any hotel office. 

The stations which intervene between Rockaway and Babylon 
are all more or less resorted to as watering-places, and they all 
have hotels and boarding-houses. 

BABYLON, Huntington, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 

35 miles from New York. Hotels — American Hotel, Sampwanis 

House, Lagrange House, and Walton. 

Babylon is a village of about 2,000 inhabitants. It has two 
churches, one public school, and a number of private schools. 
The village is built' principally upon two streets, crossing one 
another at right angles. Comfortable cottages line these streets, 
and the visitor cannot fail to be impressed with the air of thrift 
and prosperity which the place presents. The principal trade of 
Babylon is in fish, which are caught in great quantities by profes- 
sionals and amateurs in the bay and waters adjacent. 

FIRE ISLAND, Babylon P. 0. 
Hotel — Surf Hotel. 

Tourists may avoid inconvenience by purchasing through 
tickets for Fire Island at New York. Stages will be found in 
waiting at Babylon to convey passengers to the steamboat land- 
ing, a mile distant. The boat makes several daily trips across 
the bay to and from the islands. The hotel is not on Fire 
Island itself, but on a long sand spit known as Fire Island Beach, 
as lonely and desolate a place in itself as can well be imagined, 

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but the scene of much gayety during- the summer, when its bath- 
ing facilities, its blue-fish, and its pure air attract numerous visi- 
tors. The Atlantic, with its tumbling surf on one side and the 
quiet waters of the South Bay on the other, afford the two vari- 
eties of salt water bathing in perfection, and a large fleet of sail- 
boats offer accommodations to lovers of fishing and sailing. The 
lighthouse, which stands near the hotel, is one of the finest 
structures of the kind on the coast, and every precaution is taken 
to render its service perfectly trustworthy, as it is usually the 
first light seen from inward-bound European steamers, and is 
often the point whence the captains of outward-bound vessels 
take their " departure." Probably more amateur fishermen have 
had their first tussle with a full-grown blue-fish off Fire Island 
Ialet than at any other one place on the coast. No one who has 
caught only the smaller individuals, which frequent bays and 
sounds, can form an idea of the muscular force, as well as con- 
summate skill, required to land, or rather boat a large blue-fish. 
To those who have this pleasure still before them, we cordially 
commend Fire Island, where every facility is afforded for enjoy- 
ing the sport under the most favorable circumstances. The hotel 
rates are from $12 to $23 per week, and there are several cot- 
tages available for families at special rates. The Western Union 
Telegraph Company has a station at the hotel for use of the 
guests, which is a great convenience to business men. Bay share 
is the next station beyond Babylon, with a number of small hotels 
charging from $0 to $12 per week. 

ISLIP, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 

43 miles from New York. Hotels — Pavilion, Lake House. 

Many wealthy New Yorkers have summer residences in and 
near this village, and although possessing no special attraction as 
a sea- side resort, it is much visited during the warm weather. 
There are valuable trout ponds at Islip, and much money has 
been expended in developing the art of trout culture, to the end 
that the proprietors and their friends may indulge in their favor- 
ite sport in its highest perfection. The South Side Club has its 
rendezvous near a station of this name, forty-seven miles from 
New York. Members only are received at the Club House, which 

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is beautifully situated on the banks of a fine trout stream. All 
kinds of game are found in the vicinity. 

PATCHOGUE, Brookhaven. Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
54 miles from New York. Hotels — Roe's Hotel, West End Hotel. 

Patchogue is named after the Indians who once inhabited the 
vicinity. It stands on the shores of Patchogue Bay, and besides 
being an active bustling village, is attractive enough in its acces- 
sories of land and water to draw together a considerable number 
of summer sojourners. Here is the terminus of the Southern 
Railroad, practically a prolongation of the Rockaway Branch, 
over which there are daily four through trains to and from 
the city. The waters of the South Bay afford good fishing 
here as everywhere, and the fresh ponds in the vicinity may be 
fished with reasonable prospects of perch and pickerel, while 
trout are found in the streams — not, however, in great abundance 
except where they are preserved. Patchogue does not boast of 
its bathing facilities, although the still- water bathing is good of 
its kind. It is, moreover, a pleasant sail across to Fire Island 
beach, where the surf rolls in as superbly as at Newport or 
Long Branch, and bathers can be knocked over and rolled about 
on the sand in the most approved style. The climate is healthful 
beyond all cavil, and the inhabitants even go so far as to claim 
that neither mosquitoes nor fever-and-ague are indigenous. The 
hotels charge $10 to $12 per week, and are quite good. There are 
several boarding-houses, where prices range from $7 to $10 per 
week. 

BELLPORT, Suffolk Co., N. Y., 
situated on Bellport Bay, forms the eastern end of the great 
South Bay. Stages run twice a day to and from Patchogue, 
four miles distant, and from the station on the main Long Island 
Railroad. Bellport Station, on the Long Island Railroad, is only 
four miles distant, and stages connect with the regular trains. 
Of boarding-houses there are nearly a score, with moderate 
: marges. Bathing, fishing, gunning, and driving are to be had 
\or love or money, as the case may be ; and boating, with its 
accompanying joys of blue-fish in the bay, and surf-bathing on 
the ocean beach, are among the regular amusements. 

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THE GLEN COVE BRANCH. 

At Mineola a branch leaves the main line for Locust Valley and 
intermediate stations. The first waterside station reached is 
Roslyn, twenty-three and a half miles by rail from New York ; 
also reached by the steamboat Sewanhaka, from Pier 24, East 
River, at 4 P.M. daily, Sundays excepted, touching both ways at 
33d St, Returning, the boat leaves Roslyn at 7. 30 A. M. The 
hotels are the Roslyn, Orchard House, Mechanics' Hotel, and 
Mansion House. Board, $10 a week and upward. A literary 
circle, of which the venerable William Cullen Bryant was the 
founder, has long had its summer headquarters in this vicinity. 
The village is at the head of Hempstead Harbor, a deep indentation 
of Long Island Sound. 

Glenhead is the station for Sea Cliff, a charming resort on a 
headland overlooking the mouth of Hempstead Harbor and the 
sound. Here various camp-meetings are held during the summer 
months, and many cottages are occupied by regular summer 
sojourners. The Sea Cliff House is a fine large hotel, conducted 
on the European plan. The Methodist Episcopal Church of New 
York City has a ■' Home " for its aged and infirm members, and 
there is a large and commodious ' ' tabernacle,' ' where religious ser- 
vices are conducted. There is a daily boat, the Sewanhaka, to and 
from New York, leaving Pier 24, E. R. , at 4 P.M., and returning at 
7.15 A.M. Glen Cove is two miles beyond. The Pavilion Hotel is 
a large and well-kept house on the point west of the village. It is 
easiest reached by boat. Locust Valley, the terminus of the road, 
has many good boarding-houses, but no large hotel. All the 
stations of this road have seven trains a day to and from New 
York. 

The Northport, Smithtown, and Port Jefferson Branch 
diverges from the main line at Hicksville. Syosset, the first station, 
is the point of departure for Oyster Bay (Nassau House), a water- 
ing-place on one of the many indentations of the North Shore. 
A line of stages runs from the station. The drives in this vicinity 
are delightful, and the boating facilities are abundant. The 
Sewanhaka Yacht Club makes this harbor its headquarters. Cold 
Spring Harbor (Hotels — Laurelton Hall, Glenada Castle, Forest 
Lawn Hotel). This resort is charmingly situated on bold wooded 

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hills, whose slopes command views of the neighboring waters, 
and are dotted with pleasant homes of summer residents. A 
stream falls into the head of the harbor, which is the outlet of a 
number of beautiful ponds. The vicinity of Syosset Bay is ex- 
ceptionally beautiful, broken as it is into the most delightful 
variety of hill and dale, wood, meadow, and upland pastures. 
Lloyd's Neck, which forms part of the eastern shore of the bay, 
is divided and nearly separated from the mainland, or rather 
island, by Lloyd's Harbor, an arm of Huntington Bay. This neck, 
which was formerly known as Queen's Village, is composed of 
high hills, from whose summits superb views of the sound open 
in all directions. Farm-houses are moderately abundant, and 
some of them are opened, during the season, for boarders . The 
waters of the bay are deep enough to float the largest ships, and in 
former times were used as anchorage ground by whalemen and 
merchantmen, who preferred remaining there to risking the then 
dreaded passage of Hell Gate. 

HUNTINGTON BAY. 

What with Lloyd's, Huntington, and Northport Harbors, and 
sundry necks, coves, and beaches, the high- water mark of Hunt- 
ington Bay is quite as eccentric as that of Syosset, and either of 
them must have seriously hindered the progress of the coast 
survey. It divides into four considerable harbors, to wit, Lloyd's, 
Huntington, Centreport, and Northport. On the shores of the 
three last are villages named from their respective bays. 

HUNTINGTON, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 

34| miles from New York. 
Hotels — Suffolk, Huntington House. 

The railroad station is about a mile from the village of Hunt- 
ington, which is situated on a bay of the same name. The J. B. 
Schuyler leaves Pier 16, E. R., daily at 3.45 P. M. for a landing 
connected by stage with the village. Northport is a beautiful 
village, nearly a mile from the railroad station. It is charmingly 
situated on a land-locked harbor, around which are green and 
well-wooded hills. One can hardly fancy a pleasanter place than 
the shores of this quiet harbor for a summer retreat. There are 
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two hotels, the Northport House and the First National Hotel. 
The harbor will admit vessels drawing fifteen feet of water. The 
surrounding country is pleasantly broken into hill and dale, afford- 
ing pretty and unexpected outlooks over the Sound, and the 
shores of the harbor are admirably suited for building sites. The 
climate is very healthful. St. Johnlancl (44 miles from New York), 
owes its foundation to the benevolent plans of the late Rev. Dr. 
Muhlenberg, for the benefit of destitute children and old men. 
It has met with well-deserved success. Smithtown, St. James, 
and the other stations on this branch of the Long Island Railroad 
are, for the most part, some distance from the coast, but the sur- 
roundings are delightful, and excellent board may be obtained in 
many of the quiet farm-houses in the vicinity. The drives are 
exceptionally pleasant. Port Jefferson (Suffolk Co., N. Y., 58 
miles from New York). Here ends the branch road which we 
have been following. Hotels — Town&end House, Port Jefferson 
Hotel, Smith Hotel. The town is pleasantly situated on an ex- 
cellent harbor, and is a centre of considerable industry, including 
several ship yards. 

The Sag Harbor Branch diverges from the main line of the 
Long Island Railroad at Manor Station (65 miles from New York), 
and soon reaches West Moriches, the stage station for 

CENTRE MORICHES, Suffolk Co., N.Y. 
GO miles from New York. 

The name Moriches is of Indian origin, but its signification is 
not positively known. Of the three villages, Centre, East, and 
West Moriches, the first named is the most important. It is a 
pleasant place, lying a mile from the East Bay, which is a com- 
paratively narrow continuation of the Great South Bay. Here 
still-water bathing may be indulged in to any extent, while on 
the outer beach are bathing-houses and the usual accommodations 
for enjoying the magnificent surf. As the villagers count upon 
about a thousand visitors during the summer, the provisions for 
crossing to the outer beach are ample, and abundantly patronized. 
Sportsmen, whether they are disciples of the rod or gun, find 
plenty of game, in the way of blue-fish, bass, black-fish, perch, 
trout, snipe, wild duck, etc., while those who are not above 

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crabbing may catch fche hard and soft varieties of that esculent 
crustacean in unlimited numbers, and have, probably, more down- 
right fun than the more professional sportsmen. Speonk (7S 
miles from New York), is a pleasant farming village, with the 
Bay side House for its principal hotel, and a number of good 
boarding-houses. It is within easy distance of the bay, where 
boats are always in readiness to go over to the ocean beach. 
Westhampton is near the water, with abundant boarding-houses 
and many regular residents for the summer, among whom is ex- 
Gov. John A. Dix. At Quogue, Fire Island Beach, the long, nar- 
row, barren strip of sand which forms the southern boundary of 
South and East Bays makes its first and only connection with 
the mainland, and terminates the stretch of the Great South Bay 
and its branches. This connection of the outer beach with the 
mainland is but a few hundred yards wide, when the beach re- 
sumes the character of a narrow bank, separating bay and ocean. 
Quogue is on the neck of land of the same name which separates 
Quantuc and Shinnecock Bays. Being thus surrounded on three 
sides by water, and having the advantages of still and surf- bath- 
ing, it is, of course, well adapted to become a watering-place, and 
is visited as such. It has several large boarding-houses, which 
can accommodate a considerable number of visitors. Panquogue 
light-house is 150 feet high, and is furnished with an excellent 
lens apparatus. Its light can be seen twenty miles at sea. At- 
lanticville {Halsey House), Good Ground, and Ponquoque, and 
Canoe Place, are little villages on inlets of Shinnecock Bay, which, 
at the last named point, is separated from Peconic Bay by an 
isthmus a mile wide. It is famous for its clams, which are knovrn 
as Canoe Place clams, and are so much sought for by New York 
dealers, that it is easier to procure them at Fulton Market than 
at Canoe Place. At Shinnecock, on the east side of the bay, is 
the settlement of the Shinnecock Indians, once a powerful tribe, 
but now reduced to a small number. They have lost their own 
language, and speak English entirely. The young men go to sea 
as sailors, mostly on whaling voyages, and the girls are many of 
them servants in white families in the neighborhood. The 
men, as they outgrow the wandering propensities of youth, en- 
gage in fishing and in agricultural pursuits. All are exempt 

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from taxation, and have various privileges not accorded to the 

whites. __ 

SOUTHAMPTON, Suffolk Co., N- Y. 

90 miles from New York. 

Still and surf bathing, pleasant drives, blue-fish, bass, and 
gunning in the season, are among the attractions of Southampton, 
which is, in itself, a pleasant village, with accommodations for 
boarders which are always full. WatermUls, three miles farther 
east, has accommodations for about a hundred boarders, in differ- 
ent houses. Bridgehamptoii (96 miles from New York) has a long 
list of boarding-houses, a good public library, Presbyterian and 
Methodist churches, and the usual aquatic attractions of Long 
Island towns, with the addition of a large fresh-water pond. This 
is one of the points of stage connection with East Hampton. 
The Hamptons, East and South, together make up the romantic 
peninsula of Montauk. Ever since the settlement of the country 
in 1649, and until the building of the Sag Harbor Branch Railroad, 
this region has preserved much of its primitive simplicity, but the 
towns along that road have now put on a somewhat modern dress, 
and bid adieu to the reposeful character which has so long been 
one of their chief attractions. East Hampton, however, retains 
its individuality in a good degree, although the scream of the 
locomotive does sometimes reach the ears of its inhabitants from 
the westward ; and the customs of two hundred and twenty odd 
years are annually modified more and more by intercourse with 
summer visitors. Nevertheless, the village has not yielded to 
the march of ' ' improvement " to a noticeable degree ; and, much 
as we prize the civilizing agencies of the day, we cannot but hope 
that East Hampton village, and the tract which lies between it 
and Montauk Point, will never be brought into much easier com- 
munication with the rest of the world than exists at present. 
The village was settled, at the above-mentioned date, by a party 
from Maidstone, England, who showed their wisdom by laying 
out the village street 300 feet wide, and building on both sides 
thereof. As the street was surveyed, so it remains ; and churches, 
windmills, and houses look as if they might be the ones which 
were at first erected. The first church was built in 1652, but 
was enlarged in 1673 and 1693. In 1717 it was pulled down, and 

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rebuilt on an enlarged plan, and^ after being suffered to rest 105 
years, was remodeled in 1823. Many of the old timbers were 
used in the frame, and its present appearance, without and within, 
is sufficiently antique. For a hundred and fifty years one iron 
vane did duty on the spire of the church, bearing the dates 1649 
and 1717, but was at last sold to an antiquarian. From the 
church belfry a superb view of the country, of the ocean, and of 
Naepague beach may be obtained. Of the several clergymen who 
have watched over the congregation at East Hampton, we have 
only space to mention Dr. Lyman Beecher, whose powerful mind 
had so strong an influence on New England theology, and whose 
children have made the family name familiar to all the English- 
speaking world, and, in a good degree, to the rest of Christendom. 
It was in consequence of his love for trees that the street was 
planted with the elms which now add so much to its beauty. 
John Howard Payne, the author of " Home, Sweet Home," lived 
and died in this quiet place. The modern hotel is as yet unknown 
in the village, but nearly all the families receive boarders during 
the summer, at $8 to $12 per week. Stages run daily to Bridge- 
hampton and Sag Harbor. In conclusion, let us say that East 
Hampton is no place for those whose hearts are in this world of 
fashion, and who cannot enjoy a meal unless it is served in several 
courses and with due circumstance. Happy, however, are those 
who can without regret turn their backs upon Newport and Long 
Branch, and luxuriate on East Hampton air, and diet at an East 
Hampton household. 

Montauk Point lies about eighteen miles east of Hampton, " as 
the crow flies," but considerably farther by the road. Probably 
this road is the finest sea-side drive on the Atlantic coast (we refer 
to its natural features and not to any superiority in the - roadway). 

The ' ' Point " is lonely and romantic enough to excite enthusi- 
asm in the breast of a Wall street stock gambler, and few who 
have any appreciation of nature can forget the moment when, 
approaching the edge of the promontory, they looked down on 
the mighty surf which forever thunders at its base. The light- 
keeper's house is the only one near the Point, and it is not safe 
to count upon his limited accommodations for board and lodging. 
Camping out or a return to the settlements are the only resources, 

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and many are the picnic parties which, entranced by the scene, 
have lingered at Montauk until aarkness made the drive home 
one of doubt, if not of danger. 

SAG HARBOR, Southampton, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
97 miles from New York. Hotels — Nassau and American. 

Situated at the head of a noble bay, Sag Harbor has since early 
times been one of the chief towns of Long Island. During its early 
history, the town owed its prosperity to the whale fishery, which 
was at that time carried on by means of whale-boats which put 
out from shore on the appearance of the whales, or at most watched 
for them in the offing. This source of prosperity of course dis- 
appeared with the whales, and for many years the population 
barely held its own. Now, however, it may fairly look forward 
to greater prosperity. The town was first settled in 1 730. During 
the Revolution it was from time to time occupied by the British 
in considerable force. In May, 1777, General Parsons, then having 
a command in Connecticut, sent out an expedition composed of 
234 men, under the command of Lieut. Col. Meigs. The party 
crossed the Sound in thirteen whale-boats, landed at Southold 
and carried their boats over into Peconic Bay. Fortunately for 
the success of the enterprise, a large part of the British force had 
marched for New York a few days before, but a garrison still 
remained to guard a quantity of stores at Sag Harbor. Thither 
Lieut. Col. Meigs went with his detachment, arrived at two o'clock 
in the morning, surprised the guard, had a brisk fight, captured 
ninety prisoners, and after destroying a quantity of shipping and 
stores, started on their return, reaching Guilford at two o'clock 
P.M., having been absent only twenty-five hours. In that time 
the troops traversed ninety miles by land and water, and accom- 
plished the object of the expedition with entire success. Congress 
voted a sword to Lieut. -Col. Meigs, and some of his subordinates 
were promoted for their good behavior and gallantry. A British 
fleet was stationed in Gardiner's Bay during the war of 1812, and 
at one time dispatched a " cutting out " expedition by night to 
Sag Harbor. The garrison of militiamen which was there at the 
time succeeded, however, in repelling the attack, and but little 

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damage was done. There are, besides the hotels named, numer- 
ous boarding-houses. The town is very attractive and picturesque. 
Peconic Bay is nearly twenty miles long in its greatest length, 
and five miles broad. This completely land-locked sheet of water 
is divided by Robbins' Island into Great and Little Peconic Bays, 
the former being the inner of the two, and the latter being sepa- 
rated from Gardiner's Bay and the ocean by Shelter Island. 
New Suffolk is the only place on the bay proper which can be 
properly classed as a sea-side resort. There is a hotel here, and 
the bathing and fishing are good. Jamesport is a neat cluster of 
exceedingly comfortable houses, among which are the Miamogue, 
Bayside and Sunny side Houses. Both these villages are on the 
northern shore of Peconic Bay, and are easily reached by the 
Long Island Railroad. The southern shore is almost uninhabited, 
and wild deer still roam through the forests in the vicinity. The 
Peconic River falls into this bay, and at its mouth is the thriving 
village of Riverhead, seventy-three miles from New York. Its 
hotels, the Griffith House, Long Island House, and Suffolk Hotel, 
can lodge a moderate number of guests. Riverhead is the county 
town. It has six churches and good schools, and would merit a 
longer notice if it were only at the sea-side. The surf at Quogue 
is unfortunately eight miles distant, while even Long Island 
Sound and Peconic Bay are respectively four and three miles away. 
However, as a local historian intimates, ' ' They are all easily 
reached and furnish good bathing." He might have added that 
several livery stables are to be found in the village. 

GREENPORT, Southold, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
95 miles from New York, by Long Island Railroad. 

Hotels — Clark House, Peconic Hotel, Wyandank House, Burr 

House, Will House. 

Greenport is the eastern terminus of the Long Island Railroad. 
It is charmingly situated just between Gardiner's Bay and Peconic 
Bay. Shelter Island, with its wooded heights, is directly opposite 
the town, and the harbor, or, more properly, roadstead, could 
readily furnish anchorage for the combined navies of the world 
This harbor is, in fact, one of the finest on the whole Atlantic 
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shoals, and through which the Great Eastern might run at full 
speed without risk of grounding. Formerly Greenport was a 
busy whaling port, and sent out quite a large tonnage of ships. 
The decline of this trade, years ago, deprived the town of one of 
its principal sources of business ; but it seems to have recovered 
from the shock, and now presents as thriving and prosperous an 
aspect as ever. The Long Island Railroad has, of course, been a 
chief promoter of this state of things ; and in bringing trade and 
visitors, and consequently wealth to Greenport, has been of most 
efficient service to the public well-being. A very considerable 
business in menhaden fishing is carried on, and quite a fleet of 
schooners, sloops, and smacks may be seen in the harbor. Steam 
vessels of large size are employed, which have machinery for ex- 
tracting the oil on board. These steamers go down the coast at the 
proper season, and follow the fish in their migration northward. 
The village contains various churches, viz. , Presbyterian, Congre- 
gational, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic. 
Education is provided for by five schools, two of which are public 
and three private. A neat brick building contains a well-con- 
ducted National Bank, which pays a handsome semi-annual divi- 
dend. There are ship-yards, and several sets of ways for raising 
vessels out of water. On the business street are many thriving 
stores, and other evidences of industry and traffic. The situation 
of the village renders it very attractive to summer tourists, who 
every year throng its spare rooms and fill its streets with gayety. 
Besides the New Yorkers and others who have summer residences 
here, numerous boarders find excellent accommodation in the vari- 
ous hotels and boarding-houses. The bathing facilities are excel- 
lent, the water being peculiarly pure and beautiful, and although 
genuine surf-bathing is not to be had close at hand, the still-water 
bathing is as good as can be desired. The sportsman can find 
good fishing-grounds for all salt-water fish, and any number of 
excellent boats, or, if he desires it, yachts, in which to make his 
excursions. Good goose and duck shooting may be had in the 
proper season. Orient is a few miles east of Greenport, and has 
a fine hotel — the Orient Point House — near the eastern end of the 
island. It is a very popular resort. The steamer Sunshine, mak- 
ing tri-weekly trips between Hartford, Conn., and Sag Harbor, 

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touches at Greenport and New London. She leaves Hartford on 
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays ; and Sag- Harbor on Mon- 
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays. She is a small, but comfortable 
and well-managed boat. 

SHELTER ISLAND, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
This beautiful and popular resort is connected with Greenport 
by steam and sail boat ferries, which afford constant means of 
communication. It is about four miles long and one mile wide, 
covered with lofty and well-wooded hills, and surrounded by pleas- 
ant waters with smooth beaches and sheltered coves. It lies be- 
tween the two points into which Long Island divides at its eastern 
end. Facing Greenport are the two places of resort, the Manhan- 
sett House and the Prospect House. The first of these is an ele- 
gant modern hotel, finished with all the perfection of the building 
art, and thronged in summer by fashionable visitors. It is sur- 
rounded by shady groves, which extend almost to the beach on all 
sides. The Prospect House is a less pretentious structure, on the 
grounds of the Shelter Island Camp Meeting Association. It is 
the centre of a large number of cottages, which can be rented for 
the season. A high hill near by is crowned by a lofty observatory, 
whence a superb view of the surrounding waters may be obtained. 
Altogether Shelter Island affords a combination of attractions such 
as is seldom found in a single neighborhood. 

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The Neversink Highlands, on the shore of Raritan Bay, and in 
sight from the Battery, at New York, are the highest elevations 
on the New Jersey coast, which stretches south and a little to the 
west for about a hundred and twenty miles to Cape May, thence 
curving sharply to the northwest along the shores of Delaware 
Bay. The coast is, for the most part, low or lined with sand-hills, 
covered in some cases with a scant vegetation and shaded by pines 
and evergreens. Its attractions consist in its magnificent beaches, 
which line the shore as far as the eye can reach, and afford unsur- 
passed facilities for bathing, driving, snipe and wild-fowl shoot- 
iog, and certain kinds of fishing. Owing to the nearness of New 
York, and the numerous vessels which are continually bound in 
or out of that port, wrecks are common along this coast, and the 
United States Government has established life-boat stations at 
convenient intervals along the shore, and has effectually broken 
up the piratical gangs of wreckers, which in former times were 
only too glad to see some helpless craft driving among the 
breakers. 

THE HIGHLANDS OF NEVERSINK. 

The bases of these noble hills form the southern shore of Raritan 
Bay, and from their summit a superb view opens, commanding 
the bay and the Narrows, as far as New York, and including a 
wide sweep of land and ocean in every direction. Mount Mitchell, 
the highest point, is 282 feet above tide-water. These highlands 
are usually the first land seen from inward-bound vessels ; and in 
old times, when sailors had sometimes to work to sea against an 
adverse wind, they were so long in losing sight of the Highlands, 
that the name Neversink was fixed on them forever. The two 

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lighthouses are about one hundred feet apart, the southern on* 
being a revolving Fresnel light of great brilliancy, raised 248 feet 
above the water. The Highlands are bold and rugged in their 
general features ; rocks alternating with charming woodlands, 
and the whole beautified by art. The good fishing and bathing, 
and the romantic scenery, make this a favorite resort. The Red 
Bank boats, leaving Pier 35, North River, at irregular hours, 
according to tide, touch daily at the landing ; and the hotels may 
be reached by land from Red Bank and its vicinity. 

KED BANK, Monmouth Co., N- J. 

26 miles from New York. 
This pretty town is on the Shrewsbury River, which is here 
three-quarters of a mile across, retaining that width until it 
reaches the ocean. Red Bank is the head-quarters of several 
yacht clubs, and regattas take place every year. Red Bank is 
reached by boat and rail, via, the Southern New Jersey Railroad, 
from Pier 35, N. R. — time two and a half hours ; or by the Central 
P. R. of N. J., five trains each way daily — time from foot of Liberty 
Street, N. Y , about one and a half hours : or by boat via Shrews- 
bury River, three and a quarter hours; fare, 35 cents. Stages 
c Hinect Red Bank with the neighboring villages, all of which 
are, more or less, places of resort during the summer. 

LONG BRANCH, Ocean, Monmouth Co., N. J., 
30 miles from New York. Hotels — The Elberon, West End, 

Rowland, Pavilion, United States, Mansion, Ocean, Clarendon, 

Hotel Brighton, the East End, and others. • 

Long Branch is the victim of circumstances. Once it was an 
insignificant fishing station, with a population which became sus- 
piciously wealthy after the too frequent wrecks in the vicinity, 
and any quantity of real estate at a nominal valuation. Its husfe 
hotels are now annually crowded by the wealth, beauty, and 
fashion of the metropolis, and even of the continent, while thou- 
sands of dollars are unhesitatingly paid for a fifty-foot building 
lot. This magical change is, as all the world knows, due to a 
superb surf- washed beach and the immediate vicinity of New 
York and Philadelphia, with their populous suburbs. Long 

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Branch derives its name from the largest tributary of the Shrews 
bury River, a stream which runs in a northerly direction through 
the town. The beach, around which centres the interest of every- 
body, is truly a fine one for bathing and promenading purposes. 
Standing on the "Bluff " the white and gray line of surf and sand 
vanish in dim perspective in either direction, and it is said that 
few watering-places are favored with bathing-grounds so free 
from undertow, and in every respect so safe and enjoyable. 
" The Bluif " is a sandy elevation about twenty feet high, rising 
abruptly above the beach, its level top forming the plateau where- 
on the hotels, with their lawns and summer-houses, stand, over- 
looking the wide expanse of ocean. This bluff extends for five 
miles in an almost unbroken line, and the so-called " Beach 
Drive " extending, and partially complete, a distance of twenty 
miles or more, commanding a view of the sea for almost the entire 
distance between Port Monmouth and Squan, is laid out for the 
delectation of those who delight in holding the "ribbons" and 
whip, and is one of the grandest projects among modern pleasure- 
drives. The fact that the waves driven on the coast during the 
long storms of winter are gradually washing away this bluff, and 
slowly but surely working toward the line of hotels, has caused 
some anxiety to the owners of property, and has set the wits of 
interested persons at work to devise some way of checking these 
encroachments, for it is expensive to feed the ocean with sand 
which is worth some thousands of dollars per acre. It seems, 
however, to be impossible to prevent this erosion, and in the 
course of years it is quite likely that the hotel proprietors will be 
compelled to move. "The bathing hour is indicated by the hoist- 
ing of a white flag on the hotels, when the tide is nearly at the 
full. It is imperatively necessary that where some thousands of 
persons are bathing at once, some system should be adopted, and 
the authorities at Long Branch have arranged matters so as to 
insure safety as far as possible. During bathing-hours boats are 
kept just outside the line of breakers, to assist those who may 
get into trouble ; but it is singular how few accidents happen 
when the tide is at the proper height for bathing. Dresses of all 
colors are en regie, and probably the scene on the beach at the 
height of the season is as brilliant as anything of the sort in the 

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world. Whenever the surf is so high as to be unsafe, or for anj 
other reason the bathing-master does not consider it expedient to 
hoist the flag, bathers go in at their own risk. There is no local 
reason why Long Branch should not be as healthy as every one in- 
terested in the hotels claims that it is. There are no swamps in the 
neighborhood to breed malaria — the salt marshes on Shrewsbury 
River, overflowed by every high tide, being the nearest approach 
thereto. The face of the surrounding country is undulating and 
well drained. A few of the primeval forest-trees remain standing, 
but most of the trees are a second growth of hard woods, which 
are usually a sign of a healthful region. The water obtained in 
digging wells along the bluff contains a trace of iron, lime, mag- 
nesia, and soda, scarcely perceptible to the taste, and conducive 
to health rather than otherwise. If delicate ladies will persist in 
going from a heated ball-room into the cool night-breeze on the 
verandas, without even throwing a shawl over their shoulders, 
they may have reason to complain of the unhealthf ulness of the 
Branch ; but for those who exercise a moderate degree of prudence 
in observing the simplest laws of nature, the climate is wholly 
unobjectionable. The diseases which are usually relieved by the 
peculiar air and influences of the Branch are those of a nervous 
character, diseases of the kidneys, dyspepsia, and rheumatism. 
Without claiming exemption from the ordinary ills of life, it is 
evident that when so many thousand people are brought together 
from all parts of the country, diseases would develop if there was 
any developing power in the air. As the contrary is true, we may 
fairly assume that the Branch is a healthful place. There is no 
lack of pleasant walks and drives in the vicinity. The beach is 
available more especially for pedestrians and for horseback exer- 
cise, but the " Beach Drive," so called, affords ample room for 
carriages of all descriptions, and the roads which diverge there- 
from lead in almost all cases through pleasant villages or shady 
woods. Shrewsbury is the oldest village in the neighborhood, its 
settlement dating back to about 1664. It is practically a part of 
Red Bank, and has a station on the New Jersey Southern Rail- 
way. Eatontown, five miles to the north, and connected with the 
Branch by a good turnpike road, is at the junction of the Port 
Monmouth Spur of the New Jersey Southern Railroad, It is a 

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• 
compact village, containing many handsome houses. Seabright, 

where Shrewsbury River is crossed by a bridge, is three milea 
north. There are a number of pleasant cottages in its immediate 
vicinity. Atlanticmlle, or, as it was formerly called, Fresh Pond, 
is the northern continuation of Long Branch, some of the large 
hotels being within its limits. Most of the permanent residents 
combine fishing, farming, and purveying for the hotels as a means 
of support. Pleasure Bay, owing to the facilities which it affords 
for boating and kindred pursuits, is perhaps the most popular re- 
sort in the vicinity of the Branch. A short drive or walk of a 
mile and a half, either by the Beach Drive and Atlantic Avenue, 
or by any of the roads leading to the north and west, will bring 
the visitor to the bay. Boats and yachts of all sizes are procur- 
able at not very exorbitant prices, considering the vicinity of the 
Branch, and the whole of South Shrewsbury River, with its 
oumerous inlets, is available as a sailing ground. Wolf Hill and 
Dumbarton Hill are elevations near Ocean Port, whence fine views 
of the vicinity may be obtained. They are reached by way of the 
Long Branch and Eatontown Turnpike. 

Deal is an old settlement, about five miles south of the railway 
terminus and near the first break in the beach, caused by the out- 
let of Great Pond. The "Bluff" disappears here and the grad- 
ually -sloping beach is capital for bathing purposes. Hathaway' s 
and Allen's houses are the principal resorts for visitors. Shark 
River, famous for its oysters, is three miles beyond Deal, and is 
reached by a good road crossing Great Pond and leading to the 
i*iver. where there are two or three hotels which make oysters a 
specialty. Rumson Neck is separated from Long Branch by the 
South Shewsbury River. The drives over the Neck Road 
through Red Bank is a very pleasant morning ride ; the views of 
the river and bays giving variety and interest for the entire dis- 
tance. Tinton Falls is likewise a pleasant objective point for a 
ride. It is a romantic spot on the Eatontown and Cat's Neck 
Turnpike. The sand rock, which forms the falls, is of consider- 
able geological interest, containing organic remains in a good 
state of preservation. 

The N. J. Southern R. R. (boat and rail) leaves pier 8 N. River, 
N. Y. , making several trips daily to Sandy Hook, whence trains 

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convey passengers along the beach to Long Branch and the vari 
ous intermediate resorts mentioned above. 

We have thus enumerated a portion of the attractive surround- 
ings which add to the popularity of this famous watering-place, 
but to give even a mere list of the private residences, the bridle 
paths through the pines, the streams and ponds, and the various 
roads which intersect this thickly-peopled district, would require 
an octavo, instead of the modest duodecimo which the reader 
holds. 

ASBURY PARK AND OCEAN GROVE, Monmouth Co., N. J. 
36 miles from New York. Hotels — The Ocean, The Coleman, The 

Pitman, etc. 

These villages of tents, cottages, and hotels, bid fair to rival 
the largest watering-places of their kind in the country. Ocean 
Grove, the older, is separated from its neighbor Asbury Park by 
Wesley Lake, which is about three-fourths of a mile long and 
less than one hundred yards in width. On both sides of the lake 
are lines of cottages, while over its surface scores of boats ply to 
ferry people across or transport them up and down between the 
upper part of the village and the bathing-houses at the surf. 
Rules made, render vice and intemperance on the grounds impossi- 
ble ; and to promote the utmost quiet on Sunday or during hours 
of worship other days, are strictly enforced in Ocean Grove. The 
streets and avenues here were originally too narrow, and the lots 
too small, an error not copied by the projectors of Asbury Park, 
which is laid out with greater liberality and with an idea to 
future expansion. 

Rooms may be had with or without board, or tents may be 
hired and housekeeping practised on a small scale. Indeed, the 
problem of living may here be solved in almost all ways and at 
comparatively slight expense. Those wishing a good hotel will 
find the Pitman House such a one. It is the largest at the grove ; 
is lighted with gas; is near the beach, the post-office, and the 
Tabernacle ; has spacious, airy and well-furnished sleeping-rooms, 
and a public parlor well- furnished and novel in design — being 
large, very high, surrounded by galleries, and open toward the 
sea. The grounds have been tastefully improved. A grassy 

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lawn affords a good field for croquet or other recreations. The 
table is furnished with the substantials and delicacies in their 
season ; the cooking being such as promotes both pleasure and 
health. The aim is evidently to get only the best, and to make 
the Pitman House a place to be sought, enjoyed and remem- 
bered for its home-comforts and delightful associations. 

Asbury Park, and Ocean Grove, and the neighboring resorta 
south are best reached by the Central R. R. of N. J. , foot of Lib- 
erty Street, N. Y. , which railroad has its connections at Philadel- 
phia and elsewhere with all the through lines of travel to the 
N. J. beach. The N. J. Southern R. R. (boat and rail) also af- 
fords access to these resorts by changing cars at Long Branch. 

OCEAN BEACH, Monmouth Co., N. J. 

38£ miles from New York. 

This beach lies midway between Ocean Grove and Spring Lake, 
and a half a mile from the railroad depot. Four hundred acres 
of land here are owned by a company which, having laid it out 
into village lots, avenues and streets with great system, offers 
sites for sale at low prices. Several permanent residences, 
numerous cottages and boarding-houses are already erected. The 
Colorado and the Surf Houses immediately on the beach are the 
largest. Improvements here are rapidly going forward. A fine 
body of water, Silver Lake, lies in the tract, and Shark River 
bounds it on the north. All the trains of the Central R. R. of 
N. J. stop here. 

SPRING LAKE BEACH AND SEA GIRT, Monmouth Co., N J. 
Hotels — Monmouth House, Beach House, Lake House. 

This resort is ten miles south of Long Branch, 11 hours from 
New York, and 2| from Philadelphia by rail. About five hun- 
dred acres of dry sub-soil land, very fertile and advantageously 
situated here, are owned by the " Spring Lake Improvement Co." 
Nearly in the centre of this tract is a fine natural lake of fresh 
water, affording safe and quiet boating and fishing grounds. The 
Monmouth House has rooms for five hundred guests, and is con- 
structed with all the modern conveniences, including a steam ele- 
vator and steam heating apparatus. The Beach House, a mile 

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south at Sea Girt, is on a bluff overhanging the surf. This, also, 
is a fine, first-class hotel, and under the same management as the 
Monmouth House. The beach is admirably adapted for bathing, 
and is in full view of the hotel. 

The Lake House is at the depot, only a short distance from 
the beach, to which five carriages run from this house for the 
accommodation of its guests. The cottages here are all fine 
buildings. The wide avenues and liberal scale of the improve- 
ments make this, with its natural advantages, an exceptionably 
attractive spot. 

New York passengers take the New Jersey Central Railroad 
at the foot of Liberty or Clarksor streets, and run without change 
of cars directly to Spring Lake Beach, and to " Monmouth 
House " in 1| hours ; there being eight or ten trains a day each 
way. 

Philadelphia passengers take the cars of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road at the new depot at West Philadelphia, and without the 
inconvenience of crossing the city or the Camden ferries, or going 
into another State to start, are taken without change of cars to 
Spring Lake Beach in about two hours. Direct communication 
between Baltimore, Washington and the West, via Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

SQTJAN, Ocean Co., N. J. 
43 miles from New York. Hotel — Osborne House. 

This is a small village of six or eight hundred inhabitants, a 
small hotel, three churches, and several stores. It is located in 
a fertile country on the left bank of the Manasquam River, and 
one mile from its mouth and the ocean. Though the village will 
hardly be called a sea-side resort, the river bank between the vil- 
lage and the beach is lined with cottages and private boarding- 
houses. Excellent board, at moderate prices, good surf bathing, 
crabbing, fishing, boating, driving, make ample attractions to 
pleasure-seekers. This place is the present southern terminus 
of the Long Branch division of the Central R. R. of N. J., as it is 
also the last of the easily accessible points on the Jersey coast 
near Long Branch. The Pennsylvania R. R., by its Freehold and 
Jamesburgh branch, delivers passengers here and to points along 

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the beach south of Long Branch. At Farming-dale it connects 
with the Southern R. R. for Atlantic City or Philadelphia. 

TOM'S RIVER, Ocean Co., N. J. 

62 miles from New York. Hotels— Magnolia House, Ocean House. 

The village, on a navigable stream five miles from the ocean, is 
the terminus of a branch connecting at Mapleroot with the New 
Jersey Southern Railroad to New York in one direction, and to 
Philadelphia in the other. The mild and yet bracing air of the 
Jersey coast is found in perfection here, and with the facilities 
for sailing, fishing, and gunning, it is quite largely patronized by 
city visitors during the summer. Residents claim that malarious 
diseases are absolutely unknown. There are Methodist, Episco- 
pal, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches. The rates at the hotels 
are $2 to $2.50 per day. Barnegat Beach is a long, narrow strip 
of sand opposite the mouth of Tom's River, and separating Barne- 
gat Bay from the ocean. The village is quite a sizable one for 
the situation, and is reached by stage or boat from Tom's River. 

ATLANTIC CITY, Atlantic Co., N. J. 
133 miles from New York. From Philadelphia GO. Hotels — 
United States, Congress Hall, Ocean House, Surf House, Ches- 
ter County House, Chalfon Houcc, Lighthouse Cottage, 
AViambra White House, Clarendon, Sea-side House, Trernont 
House, Central House. 

Atlantic City is eminently a Philadelphian resort, and the stray 
New Yorker who finds himself there is in no danger of forgetting 
that he is not at Long Branch. The hotels are at or near the 
northern extremity of Absecom Beach, and near an inlet of the 
same name. The attractions of the place may be briefly summed 
as consisting of ocean and beach, of course including the accesso- 
ries of bathing, fishing, and driving, not to mention the social 
attractions, which are so strong an element of fascination at all 
fashionable sea-side resorts. The hotels named at the beginning 
of this sketch are all large, the United States having accommoda- 
tions for some seven hundred guests, while the smallest named 
can conveniently receive a hundred and fifty. The charges range 
from $2.50 to $3 per day. There are, besides, numerous board- 

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ing-houses, the rates being $10 to $20 per week. The surround- 
ings of Atlantic City are, of course, wholly dependent upon its 
sea-side location for their attractions; the country being flat, 
sandy, and uninteresting in itself. There are, however, pleasant 
drives; the lighthouse and its appurtenances; and Brigantine 
Beach, just across Absecom Inlet, and known to mariners as " the 
graveyard," owing to the number of wrecks which have from 
time to time been cast upon its sands. Besides these, all the 
appliances for fishing and boating are at hand, and the bays and 
inlets afford good sport at certain times and tides. Good duck 
shooting is to be found in the autumn. The Friends, Catholics, 
Episcopalians, Methodists, and Presbyterians have congregations 
here, and an academy is the sole educational establishment. Sev- 
eral trains daily over the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, direct 
to Philadelphia. 

Leeds' Point and Somers 1 Point are respectively on Little Egg 
Harbor and Green Bay, a few miles north and south of Atlantic 
City. They are reached by stage from Absecom station, on the 
Camden and Atlantic Railroad. 

CAPE MAY, Cape May Co., N- J. 

81 miles from Philadelphia. Hotels — Stockton House, Congress 
Hall, Columbia, United States, West Jersey, Delaware House, 
Atlantic Hotel, Washington Hotel, Tremont Hotel, City Hotel, 
Sherman House, American Hotel, Merchants' Hotel. 

Cape May is the eastern of the Delaware capes, and forms the 
extreme southern point of New Jersey. It has for many years 
been a popular and fashionable resort for visitors from all over 
the country ; and when once the stranger sets foot on the firm 
sands of the beach, or drives a quick-stepping horse along the 
edge of the surf for five miles, he is fain to admit that Cape May 
is, in one respect at least, favored above her neighbors. With such 
a beach for bathing and with the full benefit of the Atlantic 
surf, it is not surprising that many hotels are annually thronged 
by visitors, many of whom are Southerners, who find the Cape 
within convenient distance of home and yet far enough north 
to be reasonably cool in summer. It is also largely patronized by 
Western people The hotels are very large, and, as a general 

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thing, well kept. The five which head the list above are the 
largest and best known. Besides the hotels there are many cot- 
tages. Cold Spring, two miles north of the beach, is a favorite 
rendezvous for picnic parties ; the drive to the Spring being 
pleasant and the Spring with its surroundings being an agreeable 
change from the sand and surf at the Cape. 

The West Jersey Railroad, from Philadelphia, is the quickest 
way by which to reach the Cape from that City ; but the steamers 
afford a far more agreeable means of transit for those who like 
the water. At Sea Grove there are three fine hotels — the Sea 
Grove, Centennial, and Cape Houses. This track is under the 
control of a company which sells building lots, and is well in the 
way to build up a city of cottages. No liquor is sold on the 
grounds. Board at the hotels $2.50 to $3 per day, with lowei 
rates by the week. 

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From Cape May to the neighborhood of the St. John's River, 
Florida, the coast is almost destitute of resorts, which, in a book 
like this, can properly be classified as such. In the vicinity of 
the larger cities, such as Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, and 
some others, there are occasionally small, and generally ill-kept 
sea-side hotels, but they are none of them places which offer at- 
tractions to the tourist, unless he is a sportsman, and is willing to 
" rough it " for the sake of multitudinous geese, duck, snipe, and 
plover. Even these, however, can be found in almost equal 
abundance in more accessible localities. This part of the coast 
is, to a great degree, sheltered from the direct action of ocean 
storms by long lines of sandy beach, broken by occasional inlets, 
and now and then covered with sufficient soil to tempt a few 
settlers, and give support to a sparse growth of grass and trees. 
As a general thing, the only human habitations are those of the 
light-house keepers ; and the surf thunders along a thousand miles 
of superb sea-beach, without being once enlivened by the merry 
voices and bright dresses of bathers. The greater part of the in- 
habitants who travel at all prefer to go north, where the accom- 
modations are much better, and the air is more invigorating than 
can be found below the latitude of Cape May. Both sides of the 
Florida peninsula afford resorts which attract many northern vis- 
itors during the winter months, and along the Gulf coast there are 
a few points which either are, or will be, watering-places of con- 
siderable note. 

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FLORIDA, 

Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, though possessing some- 
thing like a thousand miles of sea-coast, are almost without places 
which can be classified as resorts. They do not lack pleasant 
islands and bays and fine beaches, but they are at once too far 
north and too far south to attract many visitors. South of Hamp- 
ton Roads, St. Augustine is the first sea-side resort to be noticed, 
and in fact the only one on the eastern side of the Florida penin- 
sula. The State is traversed by two railroads. The Florida 
Railroad follows a northwest and southeast course, from Fernan- 
dina on the Atlantic coast, 150 miles, to Cedar Keys, on the Gulf, 
where it connects with steamers for the Gulf ports. The Atlantic 
coast steamers touch at Fernandina. The Florida, Atlanta, and 
Gulf Railroad, and its connections, runs from Jacksonville to 
Tallahassee and Quincey, crossing the first-named road at Bald- 
win, twenty miles west of Jacksonville. Nearly all visitors reach 
Florida by way of Savannah, Ga., following either the all rail 
route, or taking any of the coastwise steamers from New York, 
Philadelphia, or Baltimore. Some of these go direct to Savan- 
nah, while others stop at Richmond, Norfolk, Wilmington, or 
Charleston, whence the journey is completed by rail. From Bos- 
ton there are three steamers sailing on the 10th, 20th and 30th of 
each month. From Savannah there is still further chance of land 
or sea routes. 

ST. AUGUSTINE. St Johns Co., Fla. 
Hotels — Magnolia Hotel, Florida House, St. Augustine Hotel. 
Perhaps no city in the Union is so absolutely foreign in its 
appearance and character as this. Two-thirds of its population 
are of Spanish origin, and still speak the language of their ances- 

118 



FLORIDA. 

tors as their vernacular. Its streets are narrow, and lined with 
low houses, built of " coquina," or coral rock, their architecture 
being as un-American as possible, and its whole moral and social 
aspect is peculiarly unfamiliar to eyes accustomed only to the 
wide-awake activity of the average American town. It is, in 
short, as an author has happily called it, "A city gone to seed." 
The low ridge of land on which St. Augustine is built is between 
a salt marsh, on the landward side, and a bay, which is separated 
from the ocean by a beach. The town is within view of the 
ocean, and the roar of the surf, as it breaks over the bar, is heard 
day and night, while the sea-breeze, blowing across the warm 
waters of the Gulf Stream, is well suited to strengthen the most 
sensitive lungs and act as a gentle stimulant to the most delicate 
constitution. The hotels are as well kept as can reasonably be 
expected, considering the difficulties to be overcome in obtaining 
such supplies as are usually considered necessary for such estab- 
lishments. In the winter, when the great influx of visitors takes 
place, the hotel proprietors make arrangements to import their 
groceries and butter from the North, and trust to local resources 
to complete their bills of fare. Fortunately, game, fish, vege- 
tables, and fruit are abundant ; and if a visitor is disposed to 
grumble, his ill-nature is invariably set down as due to the capri-. 
cious appetite of an invalid. Besides the hotels, there are many 
good boarding-houses, all of which are filled with Northern visi- 
tors from January to May. These are mostly invalids ; at least 
every party from the North is pretty sure to contain one or more 
individuals who come here to avoid the effects of a bleak climate, 
and it is notorious that many are permanently benefited. In 
fact, cases have been known where persons have lived for years 
in the balmy air of St. Augustine when one lung was entirely 
useless. Invalids who contemplate resorting thither can avail 
themselves, if desired, of the services of resident physicians. 

It is not invalids alone, however, who avail themselves of this 
delightful climate, for the surrounding country and the waters 
which wash the shores afford abundant sport for those who love 
to use the rod or gun. In the bay delicious fish of many kinds 
are taken, the sheep's-head, perhaps, being the most satisfactory 
to the scientific angler. The tackle necessary for taking these 

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SEA-SIDE ItESORTS. 

fish needs to be quite heavj^, and the hooks stout, as their teeth 
are so peculiar in structure that they can break an ordinary hook 
with ease. They are very strong 1 , and give capital play. The 
''drum 1 ' is a large and heavy fish, requiring the strongest lines, 
but affording less genuine sport than the sheep's-head. Mullet 
and innumerable other fish also abound, and exciting sport may 
be had in capturing sharks and devil-fish. These latter are taken 
with the harpoon outside the bar, and their pursuit and capture 
is often accompanied by a spice of danger not wholly unaccept- 
able to the true sportsman. Snipe abound along the beaches, 
and all the game birds of the Southern States are found in the 
vicinity. Inland, deer, bears, panthers, wild cats, squirrels, wild 
turkeys, and other kinds of game, are plenty; and parties camp- 
ing out, or " marooning," as it is called here, often visit the 
wilder parts of the coast, or ascend some of the lagoons into the 
heart of the dense forests. 

The city is usually approached over a causeway, crossing the 
marsh before mentioned, and following an avenue, shaded by 
orange and palm trees, leading directly to the central plaza, on 
which stands the Roman Catholic church, very antique in appear- 
ance, but comparatively modern in reality. From the plaza it is 
only a short walk to the sea-wall, which constitutes the fashiona- 
ble promenade of the inhabitants. This wall was built by the 
United States Government as a break-water, but St. Augustine 
hardly requires such a protection for its very limited commerce. 
However, were it not for the promenade which its massive mason- 
ry affords, the old city would not be half so attractive as it is to 
its many visitors, and so, perhaps, the expense was justifiable. 

Fort Marion, as it is now called, is a highly interesting relic of 
Spanish rule. It was originally known as the Castle of St. Mark ; 
and although its strength as a fortification is at least doubtful, it 
is nominally a United States fort, and is, to a moderate degree, 
looked after by the garrison which is maintained at this point. 
The coquina houses, although eminently picturesque in appear- 
ance, are not so healthful as frame structures ; and visitors are 
advised to seek the latter in looking for quarters. Good society 
is always to be found at St Augustine during the winter months ; 
and at the height of the season, say from the first of Mure 1 : to 

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FLORIDA. 

the middle of April, there is no lack of social entertainment, and 
of merry parties for picnic excursions by land or water. 

St. Augnstine is reached from the North by steamer or by rail, or 
by a combination of both. Excellent lines of ocean steamers run 
from New York to Richmond, Va. , Charleston, S. C, and Savan- 
nah. Ga. Coasting steamers run from the two last-named places, 
by way of the sounds and inlets, to the St. John's River, landing 
passengers at Picolata, or any of the other river ports. From 
Tocoi a railway crosses the country eighteen miles to St. Augus- 
tine (running time, forty minutes). If it is not desired to take 
the ocean route, or any part of it, the entire distance from New 
York may be traversed by rail. 

Tampa Bay. — This beautiful bay is nearly in the centre of the 
west coast of the Florida peninsula. It was named by the Span- 
iards Espiritu Santo Bay, and is very attractive in its surround- 
ings. A United States garrison is maintained at Fort Brooks ; 
and were it not for its inaccessibility, the Bay would be a favorite 
resort during the winter. Some of the best hunting and fishing 
in Florida is found aloug the coast to the southwest and in the in- 
terior. The only regular means of reaching Tampa is by a long 
ride from Cedar Keys. Coasting craft are, however, sometimes 
available, and are to be greatly preferred. 

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MONTREAL, QUEBEC, HALIFAX, ST. JOHN, 

AND 

THE PROVINCES. 

MOUNT DESERT, and all Points of Interest on the Maine Coast. 
RICHARDSON AND RANGELY LAKES!! 



DIRECT EINE BETWEEN NEW YORK & PORTLAND, 

Touching at Vineyard Haven (Martha's Vineyard), the popular 

Camp Meeting Resort. 



Maine Steamship Co's Steamers Eleanora & Franconia, 

Will, until further notice, leave Pier 38, East River, New York, every Monday 
and Thursday at 4 P.M., and Franklin Wharf, Portland, same days at 6 P.M. 

The Eleanora is a new steamer just built for the route, and both she and the 
Franconia are fitted up with fine accommodations for passengers, making this the 
most convenient, comfortable and economical route for abovp points. 

The sail through Long Island Sound by daylight is delightful. Patronize thia 
line, and thus avoid the dust, heat, and tedium of railway travel. Passage, with 
State Room, $5.00. Meals extra. 

HENRY FOX, Gen'l Agt, Portland, Me. 

J. F. AMES, Agt., Pier 38, East Biver, New York. 

WAUKEAG HOUSE, 

SULLIVAN, ME. 



WHITE BROS., Pr oprietors. 

This entirely new and finely appointed house will open about 
June 20th. The Waukeag has a location commanding a full view 
of Mt. Desert, and offers superior facilities to those who may 
wish to enjoy sea shore and country. Game may be found in 
abundance. The dun deer here slakes his thirst in the crystal 
streams where abound the salmon trout. Also clams, lobsters, 
and salt-water fish in variety. The region is wild and picturesque, 
and lovers of art will here find a most congenial spot. The 
Waukeag has accommodations for about 100 guests, and is in- 
tended in every respect as a first-class hotel. Rooms, large or 
small, and rooms en suite, may be secured by early application. 

Terms $1.50 to $2.00 per day, according to location. Liberal 
terms by the week or season. The Waukeag may be reached by 
steamer Ulysses, leaving Rockland Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays, at 10.30 A.M. Also by stages from Bangor. 






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CENTRE HARBOR, N. H. 

This well-known house is now open for the season. The climate is unrivalled, 
and has long been noted for its healthful and invigorating qualities, and the 
entire absence of mosquitoes and bliick flies makes the section especially a 
desirable one. Excellent facilities for drives, boating and fishing. Rooms large 
or small, and rooms en suite, may be secured by early application. Post and 
telegraph offices adjacent. Terms $3.00 per day. 

JAMES L. HUNTRESS, Proprietor. 



CITY HOTEL, 

HAVERHILL, MASS. 



J. H. ROBERTSON, Proprietor, 
No. 157 Merrimac Street. 

This popular Hotel is situated in the business centre, and is 
intended in every respecjt as a first-class house. Has ample 
accommodations for about 75 guests. The Proprietor will be 
unsparing in his efforts to merit — as in the past— the full appro- 
bation of his numerous patrons. 

SAMPLE ROOMS FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. 

Terms, §2.00 per Bay. 



SPRIIffGFIEUD 

fare and Marine insurance Co. 

Incorporated 1849. Charter Perpetjai, 

NO MARINE RISKS TAKEN. 



Capital, 
Cash. Assets, 



$750,000.00 
- 1,500,000.00 



DWIGHT R. SMITH, Pres't. 
S. J. HALL, See'y. A. J. WRIGHT, Treaa 



BIGELOW, COIT & PECK, Agents, 
ALEX. W. WISTER, Agent, 
REED & BROTHER, Agents, 



New Yobk. 

Philadelphia. 

- Boston. 



Agencies also in all the principal Cities and Towns in the country 

JL. J. HARDING, G-en'l Agt. 
~W"esterxx Department, Chicago, I1U 

The Largest and Best Assortment of 

Hygienic Undergarments 

For Ladies and Children. 



OBTAINED HIGHEST AWARD AT CENTENNIAL. 




Union Under-flannels, Emancipation Suits, 

Emancipation Waists, Dress Reform Corset 

Waists, Chemilettes, Skirt Suspenders, 

Stocking Supporters, &c, beside a 

great variety of other articles for 

THOSE DESIRING TO DRESS HYGIENICALLY. 



AGENTS WANTED. 



Address Mrs. //. S. HUTCHINSON, 

6 East 14th Strset, New York. 

SEND FOR CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS. 

LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE. 




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MATHEWSON HOUSE, 

Narragansett Pier, R. T. 

Located, near Point Judith. Light House, 

Opens June 15TH, 

The House is within five minutes' walk of the Finest Beach in the country for 
Bathing and Driving. 

LARGE AIRY ROOMS, 

nearly all of which command a view of 

OCEAN SCENERY WHICH IS NOT SURPASSED. 

One can often count one hundred vessels in full sail, going in different direc- 
tions. The "Indian Bocks 11 and "Hazard's Castle" are among the points of 
interest. 

The Boute of Travel— from New York, by Shore Line Bailroad, connecting 
with Pier Bailroad at Kingston Station, or by Steamer through Long Island Sound 
to Stonington, thence to the Pier via Stonington & Narragansett Pier Bailroads. 
From Boston, by Providence and Stonington, connecting with the Pier Bailroad 
at Kingston. Direct all communications to 

S W. MATHEWSON & CO., 

Narragansett Pier, R. la 



LINCOLN HOUSE 




Cor. Main and Elm Streets, 
WORCESTER, MASS. 



GEORGE TOWER, 



Propri etor. 



This excellent House is the most centrally located of any 
in the city. 

Terms.— |2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 per day, according to 
location of rooms. 

Proprietor also of Tower's Hotel, the popular seaside 
resort, Falmouth Heights, Mass. 



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ELEGTROTYPING & STEREOTYPING. 

205-213 EAST TWELFTH STREET, 

AND 

15 Vandewater Street, 

NEW YORK. 



They are constantly adding improvements, both in the 

BINDING AND PRINTING DEPARTMENTS, 

And offer to PuDlisliers facilities nneunallei in this country 

FOR THE 

Rapid and Accurate Production of Books. 



ALL ORDERS FOR 



JOB PRINTING 



Promptly attended to. 



Estimates for Binding or Printing furnished on application. 



COZZENS' HOTEL.-fee«' Landing, West, Paint, N. Y. 
Goodsell Brothers, Proprietors. 

This elegant and favorite summer resort stands CD a commanding 
eminence on the west side of the Hudson, 250 feet above the river, 
and about one mile aud a half south of the Military Academy ot 
West Point. It commands one of the finest views on the Hudson, 
embracing the very heart of the Highlands, and the wildest and most 
picturesque scenery on this famous river. Its location is remarkably 
healthful ; no cases of sickness having originated at this resort in 
twenty-five years. West Point was selected as the site of the Mili- 
tary Academy partly because of the healthfulness of the locality. 
Its location is particularly convenient for New York families, as It 
is but fifty miles distant, and gentlemen are enabled to visit New 
5Tork daily, returning to Cozzens' at night if they desire. Among 
che many places of interest around Cozzens' are the U. S. Military 
Academy, where daily military exercises of interest occur, old Fort 
Putnam, Beverly Dock, Robinson House, Buttermilk Falls, etc. The 
drives among the historic Highlands are celebrated for their enchant- 
ing beauty, and one or two, including the five-mile drive to Crystal 
Lake, have recently been laid out. Distinguished visitors, includ 
ing our national officials and celebrities, annually visit West Point 
Academy during the examinations, which begin on the 1st of June. 

The hotel is built of brick, and is so constructed that all its rooms 
command delightful views of the river and mountain sceneiy. It 
will accommodate about 400 guests, who are the most refined and re- 
spected classes of our metropolitan society. The house is kept in a 
style to suit such patronage, and Cozzens' Hotel stands unrivaled 
among our summer resorts in its quiet elegance and comfort. 

The table is not surpassed by any hotel in America in luxuries 
or style, and excellent music daily enlivens the enjoyments of this 
elegant and unexceptional resort. It can be reached by the Hudson 
River Railway to Garrison's Station, whence a steam- ferry conveys 
passengers to Cozzens' Dock ; or by Day Line Steamers to West 
Point, with omnibus to Cozzens' Hotel, or the Mary Powell and Jas. 
W. Baldwin to Cozzens'. Carriages await at Cozzens' Dock and 
West Point the arrival of all boats and trains. Daily excursions 
may be made from New York, stopping for dinner and spending 
three or four hours at the hotel, returning to the city the same day. 
Passengers should not mistake the West Point or Government Hotel 
for Cozzens', but drive to Cozzens' Hotel, kept by Goodsell Bms. 



PALISADE MOUNTAIN HOUSE, 

One of the finest summer hotels in the world, is situated on the 
Lydecker Point of the Palisades of the Hudson River, at Engle- 
wood, N. J. , opposite Spuyten Duyvil. It is reached by Northern 
R.R. of N. J. of W. 23d St., or Chambers St., or Steamboats Ad el phi 
and Alexis from foot of Harrison Street, New York, and by 
the Hudson River R. It. from 30th Street Depot to Inwood, 
and by small steamer ferry across the river. The situation 
is the most beautiful of any suburban hotel around New York City. 
The Palisades are four hundred feet or over above the level of 
the Ocean, and on one of their highest and most prominent out- 
looks stands the Mountain House. At its foot the Hudson washes 
the base of the cliffs on which it is built. To the north, bold 
sweeps of coast, marked with woody headlands and capped with a 
luxuriant forest, stretch away into the dim distance. Southerly, 
the spires of the city, the green hills of Staten Island, and the 
gleam of the Narrows fill the horizon ; in front, a superb expanse 
of hill and dale, river, bay, and Sound spreads itself for miles and 
miles to the east ; while from the upper windows the western view 
embraces all that beautiful country between the valley of the 
Overpeck and the Orange Mountains. The air is exceedingly cleat 
and salubrious, and has proved extremely beneficial to invalids and 
children of delicate constitutions. The hotel is supplied with water 
from a clear, cool, and delicious spring in the forest, a mile to the 
westward. The pleasant and various ways of access make it a 
most desirable summer resort, particularly for gentlemen doing 
business in the city. The drives are exceeding beautiful, and ex- 
tend for miles along the Hudson, affording entrancing views of 
the noble river and charming villas along its banks. The house 
can accommodate about five hundred guests. The rooms are 
large, en suite, completely, richly, and tastefully furnished. The 
proprietor, Mr. D. S. Hammond, thoroughly understands his busi- 
ness, and nothing is left undone that could please the most exact- 
ing guest. The cuisine of the house is equal to any in the country. 
The grounds about the house are picturesque, the walks charming, 
and the river convenient for yachting and boating. G-as, hot and 
cold water, and new bath houses are provided, by which all the ad- 
vantages of the salt water are made available. An excellent 
billiard-room and bowling-alley, a fine band of music, and a well- 
managed livery stable provide every comfort and recreation that 
could be expected. The fact that the first guests of the Mountain 
House continue to be its steadfast patrons, year after year, speaks 
for its special merits and health fulness more plainly than many 
words. Among the attractions of Englewood, particularly fo* 
families, is the fine Collegiate Institute of the Rev. T. G-. Wall, 
for young ladies and children, and the Englewood Classical and 
Mathematical School for bovs. 





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ALBANY AND NEW YORK 
Day Line Steamers 

On the Hudson River 



Summer Arrangement for Pleasure Travel. 



THE STEAMBOATS 



C. V1BBARD AND DANIEL DREW 

LEAVE NEW YORK DAILY 

(SUNDAYS EXCEPTED), 



GrOTHTG- UOETH. 



G-Oinsra- SOUTH. 



NEW YOJCK: a.m. 

Vestry St 8.35 

24ih St 9.00 

JVyack Ferry 10.25 

West Point //. 50 

P.M. 

New burgh 12 . 30 

Poughkeepsie /. 20 

Hhinebeck 2.15 

Saugeriies 2.4.5 

Catskill. 3.30 

Hudson 3.50 

ALBANY. 6.15 



A.M. 

ALBANY 8.20 

Hudson 10.4.0 

Catskill 11.00 

Saugerties 11 .45 

P.M. 

Rhincbeck 12.25 

Poughkeepsie 1.20 

J\ < ewburgh 2.15 

West Point. 2.50 

Nyack Ferry 4.10 

NEW YORK: 

24th St. 5.30 

Teslry St 5.50 



CONNECTING AT ALBANY WITH ALL POINTS WEST 

VIA N. Y. C. R. R, 

fW~ TRIP TICKETS from New York to West Point and New 
burgh, returning same day, $1.00. 

TICKETS or COUPONS good on Hudson River Railroad are received oi 
board for passage. 

MEALS CAN BE HAD ON THE BOATS. 

Leave Albany at S.20 A.M. on arrival of St. Louis Express, on the New Yort 
Central Railroad. 

ISAAC L WELSH, G. T. A., New York. 



NEW JERSEY STEAMBOAT CO 



PEOPLE' S EVENING LINE 

BETWEEN 

NEW YORK AND ALBANY 



DURING THE SEASON OF NAVIGATION 

THE MAGNIFICENT STEAMERS OF THIS LINE WILL 

LEATE IVEW YORK 

Every Week Day at 6 P.M., from Pier 41, North River, as follows : 

D R E W, 

Capt. S. J. ROE, 

MONDAY, 

WEDNESDAY, 

FRIDAY. 



ST. JOHN, 

Capt. T. D. CHRISTOPHER, 

TUESDAY, 

THURSDAY, 

SATURDAY. 

Arriving in Albany in time to connect with morning trains NORTH, EAST 
ami WEST. 

LEAVE ALBANY 

Every week day, at 8:00 P.M., from Steamboat Landing: 



ST. JOHN, 

MONDAY, 

WEDNESDAY, 

FRIDAY. 



D R E W, 

TUESDAY, 

THURSDAY, 

SATURDAY. 



Connecting at New York with ALL EARLY TRAINS for the SOUTH and 
EAST. Meais on the European plan. Rooms heated by Steam during the cool 
months. 

FOR TICKETS IN NEW YORK 

Anply at the Company's Ticket Office on the wharf (Pier 41 North River 1 ) : at 
Dodd's Express Office. No. !)44 Broadway, and 4 Court St., Brooklyn : at West- 
cotf s Express Offlce. No. 7 Park Place, 785 and 942 Broadway, N. Y. : 333 Wash- 
ington St., Brooklyn : 107 Montgomery St.. Jersey City : No. 79 Fourth St., W;l- 
1 amsburgh, and at all principal Hotels and Ticket Offices in New York, and on 
board the Steamers. 

B2P"" REGULAR, UNLIMITED TICKETS, reading by HUDSON 
RIVER R R., are good on the Boats for passage and state room berth. Special, 
Limited, or Excursion Tickets, for passage only. 

W. H. DREW, R. P. CLAPP, JOHN C. HSWITT, 

Vice-Pres't ct Treas. Sec'ij. Gen. Tht. A<jt 

S. E. MAYO, General Passe-ger Agent, Pier 41 North River, New York. 



Erie Eailway. 



WESTWARD. -j June 25, 1877* \ EASTWARD. 



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STATIONS. 



Lve. New York. Arr. 

" Twenty-third St. '* 

" Chambers St. " 

" Jersey City. " 

" Paterson. " 

" Goshen. Lve, 

" Middletown. 

" Port Jervis. " 



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Great Bend. 

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THE ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY. 

TO THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. 

During the Centennial Season — six months, closing November 10. 1876 — The 
Erie Railway carried almost 3.000,000 passengers, without a single accident to 
life or limb, or the loss of a piece of baggage. And for a whole year, the official 
records of the United States Post Office Department show the arrivals of Erie 
Railway trains in New York, on time, to be from 15 to 27 per cent, ahead of com- 
peting lines. Facts well worthy the consideration of travelers. 

E. S. BOWEN, JNO. N. ABBOTT, 

General Superintendent. General Passenger Agent. 



CITIZENS' LINE OF STEAMERS 



BETWEEN 



NEW YORK. AND TROY, 

Connecting with New York Central, Albany & Susquehanna, Rensselaer & 
Saratoga, Troy & Boston, Fitchburg, Central Vermont, and Adiron- 
dack Railroads, and Lake George and Lake Champlain Steamers. 




THE NEW AND MAGNIFICENT FALACE STEAMERS 

'CITY OF TROY" & " SARATOGA" 

Leave New York Daily, Saturdays excepted, at 6 P.M., 
From. Pier 49, North. Bivar, foot Lerov Strest. 

Arriving at Troy at 6 A.M., connecting with all morning trains North, East, 
and West. 
THROUGH TICKETS SOLD AND BAGGAGE C HECKED TO ALL TOINTS. 

RETURNING, leave Troy Daily, Saturdays excepted, at 7.30 P.M., or on 
arrival of all evening trains from the North, East, and West. 

Jt3§T* Through Tickets sold on the Steamers, and Baggage checked through to 
Long Branch, Ocean Grove, P hihidslphia, Baltimor e, and Washington. 

THROUGH TICKETS sold in New York and Baggasze checked from all 
offices of Wescotfs Express Company. No. 7 Park Place, and 7S5 & 942 Broadway ; 
No. 333 Washington St., Brooklyn ; No. 79 Fourth St., Williamsburgh ; No. 1U7 
Montgomery St., Jersey City ; and at all principal Hotels in New York. 

THE SPECIAL ATTENTION OF TOURISTS AND TRAVELERS is called 
to the fact that the Palace Steamers of this Line are entirely new, having been 
built expressly for this route, and are replete with all the comforts and conve- 
niences of a first-class hotel. No finer river steamers in the world. Over 150 
elegantly-furnished State-rooms. During the cool months rooms heated by steum. 
Meals served on the European plan. 

Hudson River Railroad Tickets (coupons), Troy or Albany to New 1'ork, 
or vice versa, taken for passage, including State-room Berth. 

t^~ Ask for Tickets via Citizens' Line Troy Steamboats, fare $1.65 less 
than by Hudson River Railroad, and less than by any other line of Steamers. 

JOSEPH CORNELL, Gen. Sup't. 

G. M. LEWIS, Gen. Ticket Ag't. WM. H. HUTCHINS, Gen. Pass. Ag't. 



FALL RIVER LINE 

Between New York and Boston, 

^S'lA. NEWPORT AXD FJ^LL RIVER. 

STEAMERS LEAVE NEW YORK AT 

5D RJ| Daily (Sundays. June 11th to Sept. 10th. inclusive," 
I • If I . from Pier 28, N. R. , ft. of Murray St ; 4 P.M. in winter. 

TEE MAMMOTH PALACE STEAMERS 

BRISTOL, PROVIDENCE, 

COMMANDER, A. G-. SIMMOl - COMMANDER, B. M. SIMMONS 

LAE&EST, POTEST, AND MOST COSTLY IS THE WOSLD. 
Trains leave Boston from the Old Colony R. R. Depot, corner 
South and Kneeland Sts. — Express. 3:30 P M. (runs through to 
Newport, allowing an opportunity of a visit of three hours at that 
fashionable watering place). Accommodation at 4:30 P M. ; 
Steamboat Express. GP.M. (Sundays, July 1st to Sept. 2d. in- 
clusive, at 7 P.M. — connecting with these magnificent Steamers 
at Fall River. 

Steamers leave Newport at 8:30 P.M. 

The Very Best Route to and from New York, Boston. Taunton, 

New Bedford. Martha's Vineyard. Nantucket. Cape Cod, the White 
Mountains, and all points East. South, and West. 

HALL'S CELEBRATED BAXDS 

Accompany each of the Steamers of this Line during the Season 
of Pleasure-Travel, and entertain passengers every evening with 
a GtiJiXI) FROMEJSADE COXCEBT. This is a 
novel and fascinating feature possessed by no other Line on 
Long Island Sound. 

FOE TICKETS AITD STATEROOMS 
in New York, apply at 529 Broadway ; Broadway, cor. 23d St. ; 
Dodd's Express Office, 944 Broadway ; and 4 Court St., Brooklyn ; 
at all principal Hotels and Ticket Offices ; at the Office on the Pier, 
and on board of Steamers. 

In Boston, at No. 3 Old State House and at Old Colony R. R. 
Depot. 

Through Tickets sold by all the principal Railroads East. South 
and West. Baggage checked to destination. 

THE ONLY DIRECT LINE TO AND FROM NEWPORT. 

£3T~ Ask for Tickets -via Fall River Line. 

BORDEN 6l LOVELL, Agents, J. R. KENDRICK, Sup't 

New York. 

GEO, L CONNOR, Gen'l Pass'r Agt., New York. 




HOTEL BRUNSWICK, 

Boylston St., cor. Clarendon, 
BOSTON, MASS. 



J. W. WOLCOTT, Proprietor. 

" The New Fire-Proof Palace Hotel — the ' Brunswick' — is one 
of the finest and most perfect Hotels in the world. The best 
class of travel, and in fact all the notabilities stop there. " — Hotel 
Reporter. 



CENTRAL VEEIOIT RAILROAD 

FOR 

White, Franconia aud Mansfield Mountains, 

LAKES CHAMPLAIN, GEORGE, DUNMORE AND 

MEMPREMAGOG. 

Littleton, Profile, Crawford, Twin Mountain and Fabyari Houses. 

Bethlehem, Jefferson, and Mt. Washington; Lebanon, Clarendon, 
Middletown, Sheldon, Ilighgate, Alburgh and Massena Springs. 



TO THE TOURIST. 

This Company issues annually a book entitled the " Summer 
Excursionist," handsomely illustrated, giving a list of routes and 
rates for *' Excursion Tickets" also a full description of all routes 
and summer resorts, which is now ready for distribution, and can 
be obtained "FREE" on application in person or by letter, at all 
Ticket Offices in Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 
Washington, Cincinnati, Louisville. Albany, Utica, Syracuse, 
Elmira, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Montreal, Ottawa, 
Quebec and White Mount ins. 

PR IXC IP AL O FFICES : 

417 Broadway, New York. Wm. F. Smith, Agt 

322 "Washington Street, Boston. T Edward Bond, " 

L. MILLES. CHAS. A. BROWN, S. W. CUMMINGS, 

Gen. Supt. Traffic. Trav.Agt., St.Alban*,Yt. Gen. Pass. Agt. 




THE "AMEKICA]^," 

BOSTON, 

Having reduced its rates, offers to 

FAMILIES, TOURISTS and theTRAVELING PUBLIC, 

SUPERIOR ACCOMMODATIONS 

At $3.00 and $3.50 per Day. 

It is the only transient Hotel (on the American Plan) with 
RUNNING WATER IN EVERY CHAMBER, 
Is perfectly ventilated. No dark rooms in the house. Contains 

Passenger Elevator, Suites and Apartments, 

with Baths and Closets adjoining. 



HAS SIX STAIRWAYS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, 

And every security against fire. 



' It is one of the most attractive and best managed of New 
England Hotels." JSf. Y. Mail 

LEWIS RICE & SON. 
86 Hanover Street. 



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This wonderful mineral fountain was discovered in February, 1870. It ii 
oeated on the Ballston avenue, one and a half miles south of principal hote.B, at 
Saratoga Springs. The water vein was struck by the drill in the bird's-eye lime- 
atone one hundred and thirty-two feet beneath the surface rock. The orifice, 
bored in the rock, is five and a half inches in diameter, and 132 feet deep, and ia 
tubed with a block-tin pipe, encased with iron, to the depth of eighty-five feet. 
Analysis of one U. S. Gallon by Professor C. P. Chandler, Ph.D., of Columbia 
College School of Mines : 
Chloride of Sodium.. . .5(12.080 grains. 



Chloride of Potassium. 24.634 
Bromide of Sodium. ... 2. "21 2 

Iodide of Sodium 0.248 

Fluoride of Calcium. . . trace. 
Bicarbonate of Lithi a.. 9.004 
Bicarbonate of Soda. . . 71.232 
Bicarb, of Magnesia.. .149.343 
Bicarbonate of Lime ..168.392 
Bicarbonate of Strontia 0.425 



Bicarbonate of Baryta 

Bicarbonate of Iron 

Sulphate of Potassa ... 0.318 

Phosphate of Soda trace. 

Bi borate of Soda trace. 

Alumina trace. 

Silica... 0.665 

Organic matter trace. 



2.014 grains. 
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Total solid contents.. . . 991.546 



Carbonic Acid Gas in 1 U. S. Gal 454.082 cub. in. 

Density 1.011 

Temperature 46° Fah. 

It will be observed that the water is strongly charged with valuable medioi 
nal, mineral and gaseous propei.ies, and the preponderance of Gas enables the 
water to hold its heavy and valuable mineral elements in perfect solution, 
whereby the water is bottled in perfect purity, and may be preserved for agea 
and in any climate. The fact that the Spring is located 132 feet beneath a solid 
rock renders it free from all impurities from surface wash or drainage. 

The water never varies in flavor, nor are its properties subjected to 
shangs by the dilution of fresh water or the mingling of foreign substances 
during the wet seasons of the year. 

As a medicinal agency its effects are marvelous, especially in cutaveou* 
diseases or any of the various phases of Scrofula, also in Kidney Disease, Liver 
Complaint, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Rheumatism, Acidity of Stomach, CoiiUipa- 
tion, and Piles. 

Geyser Water is a powerful cathartic, while at the same time, by proper 
use, its minerals may be retained to operate as a tonic and builder up of an en- 
feebled system. Geyser 'Water operates with excellent effect upon the Kidneys. 

The lithia found in it is a specific for gravel or stone, and is effectual in dis- 
solving the chalk or limestone and urate deposits in Rheumatism and Gout. 

As an Aperient or Cathartic the water should be taken in the morning. 

It is sold in cases of four dozen Pints, two dozen Pints, or two dozen Quarts, 
»nd in Block Tin-Lined Barrels containing 30 gallons, for draught by druggists. 

The Spring property is not managed by a Stock Company, and for the pur 
poses of business the proprietor has adopted only the name " Geyser Spring. ' ? 

Address GEYSfiR SPRING, 

Iaoob M. Adams. Prop'r. Saratoga Springs, N. Y 



THE 



Congress and Empire 

Spring Waters of Saratoga, 

4RE TUB BEST OF ALL THE SARATOGA WATERS FOR THE USE 01 
PERSONS OF CONSTIPATED HABIT. 

T*.ey act promptly and pleasantly, without producing debility, and their effect 
Is net weakened by continued use, as is the case with ordinary cathartics. At the 
same time they are not too cathartic — a fault with some of our most drastic mine- 
ral icaters — but sufficiently so for daily and healthful use, and not strong enongta 
lo produce reaction. 

Their continued use keeps the blood in a very pure and healthful condition, 
producing a clear noi id complexion. They preserve the tone of the stomach, ani 
are powerful preventives of fever and bilious complaints. 

THE COLUMBIAN SPRING WATER 

lt> universally acknowledged to be the best Chalybeate Water knoion. Where the 
blood -equires Iron, this water supplies it in the best possible form for use. The 
assimilation is perfect. A grain of iron in this water is, in the opinion of a cele- 
brated physician, " more potent than twenty grains exhibited according to th» 
Pliarmacopatia. " 

These waters, being purely natxiral, are highly recommended, and very fre- 
quently prescribed by the best medical authorities, many of whom, however, have 
expressed their condemnation in strong terms of the use of artificial mineral 
waters. 

Every genuine bottle of Congress Water has a large " C " raised on the glaes. 

fOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS and HOTELS THROUGHOUT the COUNTRY. 

None Genuine Sold on Draught. 

At our General Mineral Water Depot, in New York, all varieties of Natoifti 
Waters for sale at proprietors 1 prices, delivered and shipped in New York, Brook- 
lyn, and Jersey City, free of charge. 

Orders by nail will receive prompt attention. Empties taken back and allowed 
tor at aberal prices. Address, 

CONGRESS AND EMPIRE SPRING CO., 

94 Chambers Street, New York City, 

Or, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. T. 



' In connection with a recent analysis of Congress Water, Prof. Chandler says: 

"As a Cathartic water, its almost entire freedom from iron should rccornnwoi 
K above all others, many of which contain so much of this ingredient as to feciouajj 
Iropaii their usefulness." 



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certainly, of our afternoon press." — N. Y. Independent. 

"The leading representative afternoon daily of New York City.'" — New Haven 
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'•The most respectable journal in these two cities. It has maintained a more 
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the ladies and children, and the home circle." — Philadelphia Ledger. 

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"Nothing is to be found in its columns that would exclude it from the most 
refined family circle." — Pittsburgh Post. 

The Hew York Evening Post 

Is sold by the principal newsdealers throughout the country, and 
in the hotels, at most of the summer resorts. If any person 
should be unable to procure a copy and will notify the publishers, 
they will endeavor to have it placed on sale at such points. 

READERS OF THE EVENING POST 

Temporarily absent from New York may have this journal mailed 
to tbem, postpaid, for 75 cents a month. The address will be 
changed as often as desired, and if the term paid for has not 
expired when the subscriber returns to the city, the paper will be 
served at his residence by carrier. If the address is to be changed, 
the order should state whether Daily, ^emi- Weekly or Weekly, 
and should give the old as well as the new address. 




DRS. STRONG'S REMEDIAL INSTITUTE, 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., 

Is open all the year, and is also a Summer Resort during the 

Visiting Season. 

The Institute has recently been doubled in size to meet the necessities of its 
increased patronage. It is now the largest health institution in Saratoga, and is 
unsurpassed in the variety of its remedial appliances by any in this country. In 
the. elegance and completeness of its appointments it is unequaled. The building 
is heated by steam, so that in the coldest weather the air of the house is like that 
of midsummer. The proprietors, Drs. S. S. & S. E. STRONG, are Graduates of 
the Medical Department of the New York University, and are largely patron zed 
by the medical profession. In addition to the ordinary remedial agencies used 
in general practice, they employ the EQUALIZER, or VACUUM TREATMENT, 
EEEOTRO-THERMAL, SULPHUR, VAPOR, RUSSIAN, and TURKISH 
BATHS, SWEDISH MOVEMENT CURE, INHALATIONS OF OXYGEN, also 
of COMPRESSED and RARIFIED AIR, GYMNASilCS, and other varieties of 
Hydropathy and Medicine, for treatment of Nervous, Lung. Female and Chronic 
Diseases. 

References. — Bishoo M. Simpson, D.D., LL.D. : Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D.D. ; 
Prof. Tayler Lewis, LL.D. ; Chauncey N. Olds. LL.D. ; Robert Carter, Esq. 

83P™ For particulars of the Institution, send for Circulars on Lung, Nervous, 
Female, and Chronic Diseases, and on our Appliances. 

Address DBS. S. S. & S. E. STRONG, .Remedial Institute, 

Saratoga Springs, N. y. 



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MASSASOIT HOUSE, 

M. 5i E. S. CHAPIN, SnuNGFiELD, Mass. 

The Massasoit House, near Railroad Stations, was established in 1853. It has 
been twice enlarged, making it three times its original size, and thoroughly re- 
modeled and refurnished. The large airy sleeping rooms, furnished with hot and 
cold water, are excelled by none in tho country. Connecting rooms, en suite, for 
families, elegantly furnished and with bath-rooms attached. Special attention 
paid to ventilation and all sanitary improvements. The proprietors are deter- 
mined that the world-wide reputation of the Massasoit shall be maintained in all 
respects. 



BREVOORT HOUSE, 

Fifth Avenue, near Washington Square, New York. 

A quiet Hotel, tcith a Restaurant of peculiar excellence ; its patrons are of 

the best families of this country and Europe. 

CHARLES C. WAITE, Resident Proprietor. 

Fifth Avenue, near Washington Square, has been greatly improved by the 
building of those select family hotels, the Berkeley and the Grosvenor, and will 
retain its select and aristocratic name for many years, despite the movement up- 
town. The Bretooet House, which is located in this portion of Fifth Avenue, 
opened its doors to the public Twenty-two years ago. The location was then con- 
sidered up-town, and many predicted failure for such an elegant hotel so far 
away from business ; but, on theconlrary, the most favorable results were attained, 
its patrons, from the beginning, being the most selpct This hotel has, during 
these many years, maintained the most enviable reputation for its cuisine, and 
has entertained more of the royalty and nobility of Europe than all the other 
hotels in the city. The Brevoort has more real comforts than any European 
hotel on the American continent. It is the first resort of Europeans, epicures and 
experienced travelers in the United States. Its reputation is stronger to-day than 
ever, while the character of its management cannot be surpassed. It is quiet, 
elegant, refined, and furnishes the best — and only the best — of everything. Mr. 
Waite's connection with the new Windsor Hotel of this city, does not weaken his 
interest in or personal attention to the details of the Brevoort, whose constant 
patronage testifies to the position it occupies and deserves. This hotel was never 
better, and its prices for rooms and in the Restaurant are in accordance with the 
present times. 



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R. J. ALLYN, Proprietor. 



This hotel is centrally located, being situated on the corner of Asylum and 
Trumbull Streets; is the leading Hotel of Hartford. It fronts two streets, thus 
.affording many outside rooms, and is furnished in good style. Has good com- 
fortable spring-beds— marble basins and running water in its sleeping-rooms ; 
has many rooms en suite for family use, and affords an excellent table. In all 
its appointments it is strictly first-clans. 




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from which the following is an extract : 

"The B. Shoninger Organ Co's Exhibit as the best 
Instruments at a price rendering them possible to a large class of purchasers, 
having a combination of Heeds and Bi-lls. producing novel and pleasing effects, 
containing mmy desirable improvements, will stand longer in dry or damp 
climate, less liable to get out of order, all the boards being made three-ply, put 
together so it is impossible for them to either shrink, swell or split/" The only 
organs awarded, this rank. 

This medal and award was granted after the most severe competition of the best 
makers, before one of the most competent Juries ever assembled. 

New stvles and prices -just issued, which are in accordance with our rule, the 
the BEST ORGAN for the least monev. A splendid Stool boxed free with each 
organ. A liberal discount to the Clergy, Sunday Schools, Teachers, Churches 
and Lodges. 

We are prepared to appoint a few new Asrents. 

Illustrated Catalogues mailed, postpaid, upon application to 

B. Shoninger Organ Co,, 97 to 123 Chestnut St., New Haven, Conn. 



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HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY 

And Medical Publishing House, 

NEW YORK, 145 Grand St.; Established in 1835. 

PHILADELPHIA, 635 Arch St.; Established in 1843. 

125 South llth St.; Established in 1852. 
BALTIMORE, 135 W. Fayette St.; Established in 1869. 
SAN FRANCISCO, 234 Sutter St.; Established in 1870. 

OAKLAND, CAL.; Established in 1877. 
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PONDS DCTRAC" 

HAJyLAJYEELIS, OR WITCH HAZEL, 

The People's Remedy, 

For Piles, Sprains, Lameness, Burns, Scalds, Bruises, Soreness, Rheum- 
atism, Boils, Ulcers, Catarrh, Wounds, etc. Also for Toothache, 
Headache, Neuralgia, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Colic, Diarrhoea, and 
all Hemorrhages,&c. 

HJETA-IIj JPMICES. — Small. $0.50 — cheap, because doses are small. 

Medium-.... $1.00 — worth $1.33; saving 33 cents. 
Labge $1.75 — worth $2.67; saving 92 cents. 

This popular remedy has now been before the country for more than a 
quarter of a century, during which, with very little advertising, it has firmly 
established itself in the confidence of the people ; and in thousands of families 
has become as indispensable as flour or salt. 

During this period its inherent mmts have overcome the intense prejudice 
of physicians, and it is now daily preb^ribed and recommended by members of 
the Faculty, of all Schools — Allopathic, Homoepathic, Botanic, and Eclectic. 
Ask any of them about it. They will tell you that the medicinal virtues of 
Witch Hazel in an extraordinary range of action vice indisputable, and that 
ours is simply the 

BEST AND ONLY UNIFORM PREPARATION 

from that shrub ; that it is carefully made by experienced pharmacists, having 
the advantage of the perfect machinery required by an enormous business, 
from the best parts of the plant, judiciously selected at an exact and critical 
period of its growth. They will tell you that it is always the same, and 
always good; that it is not affected by change of climate or temperature ; 
that its action is prompt and effectual ; that it does not accumulate in the 
system, and ultimately manifest poisonous characteristics, but may be used 
freely, externally and internally, alone or in connection with other medicines, 

WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST DANGER. 

Ask your druggist for one of the little books (bearing his address), with 
which we supply him free, for distribution among his patrons. If you are 
well, it may give you some Interesting and Useful Information; 
while to the ill it may be the Road to Health. 

REMEMBER..— Pond's Extract really has a very extensive range 
of action. It will promptly relieve any pain, and will effectually and perma- 
nently cure a greater number of the ills which an intelligent and prudent mother 
would trust herself to treat than any other preparation, It is, therefore, 

AN INVALUABLE DOMESTIC REMEDY. 

The 50c. Bottle is cheap, because the doses are small. The $1 Bottle is cheaper, 
worth $1-33, saving 33c. The $1.75 Bottle is cheapest, worth $2.67, saving 92c. 

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PONDS EXTRAC 



Connecticut Mutual Life ' Ins. Co, 

OF HARTFORD, CONN. 

Thirty-first Annual Statement. 

Net Assets, January 1, 1876 $41,462,065 63 

He-eivfd in 1876 • - ( For Premiums $6,725,120 67 

£FW to in xoto . ( For Interestaud Reut 2,893,993 46 9,619,114 13 

r $51,081,179 66 

Disbursed iu 1876. 7,061,033 19 

Balance, Net Assets, December 31, 1876 $44,020,146 47 

Gross assets, December 31, 1876 $46,213,006 .33 

Liabilities : 
Amount required to reinsure all outstanding policies, 

net, assuming 4 per cent, interest $40,775,730 00 

All other liabilities 1,315,313 40 42,091,043 40 

Surplus, December 31, 1876 $4,121,962 93 

Increase of assets during 1876 $2,718,355 41 

Ratio of expense of management to receipts in 1876 6,95 per cant. 

Policies in force, Dec. 31, 1876, 66,618, insuring $183,414, 408- 00 

JAMES GOODWIN, President. 
JACOB L. GREENE, Sec. JOHN M. TAYLOR, Asst. Sec. 



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Capital, - - - $3,000,000 

Assets, 7 ,000,000 

INCORPORATED 1819. CHARTER PERPETUAL. 

L. J. HENDEE, President. 
J. GOODNOW, Sec. WM. B. CLARK, Ass't Sec. 

Fred. C. Bennett, Gen'l Agent, ) ■,«. v -r, , n . . ,. 
Wm. H. Wyman, Asst. GenU Agt. \ Western Branch < Cincinnati. 
Ceo. C. Boardman, Gen'l Agent, Pacific Branch, San Francisco. 
E. P. DORR, Gen'l Agent, Inland Department, Buffalo. 

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